News and Snippets from the Media

Teleworkers Doing Overtime
Workers with laptops toil a whole day per week longer than everyone else, and are grateful for the privilege

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UK squares up to teleworking
Workers in the UK are starting to come to terms with the prospect of regularly working both at home and the office.

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Home improvement: why companies must wake up to teleworking
Teleworking still hasn't taken off. It seems that companies are trying to find reasons not to let their staff work from home.

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Teleworkers receive health warning
Teleworkers' health and safety rights are being eroded by employers who fail to address their needs in company teleworking strategies.

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What computer magazine
Research shows that the average commuter spends 10 hours every week chugging backwards and forwards to the office. That is more than a day's productivity wasted. No wonder companies are actively encouraging many of their staff to work away from the office...

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Homeworking, working from home or teleworking whatever you want to call it is, for many the way to work for the future. With technology the way it is, and the way it will be, it is easily feasible for many people and many professions to be based in the home. Fax, the Internet, e-mail, downloads, uploads and WAP phones (that's phones with Internet access to you and me) all make it possible.

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DTI new ways to work conference:
Speaking on 9 May at the New Ways to Work Conference, Stephen Byers, the secretary of state for trade and industry spoke of the challenges people face trying to balance work and life.
In addition to addressing issues relating to the number of parents returning to work, maternity/paternity leave etc, he also referred to work/life balance and how employers and employees can work together for the benefit of all. The UK Government has launched the Partnership Fund - a project providing £5 million to support projects that foster good partnerships in the workplace and promote good practice.
  

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Flexible work hours in demand
Margaret Hodge, the junior equal opportunities minister, last night sought to "kill the myth" that employees without childcare responsibilities resented workmates on flexible contracts who rushed home to look after families.

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It is no longer essential for support staff to be in the same place as their bosses. As a result, more PAs are choosing to stay at home.
Many of the received wisdom's about secretaries have been proved wrong in recent years. They are not all women, many are highly qualified, and they certainly do more than take memos all day. But while the role of the office support worker may have changed beyond recognition, we at least expect them - by definition - to work from the office.

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Too good to be true - Home is where the heartbreak is for workers lured by adverts promising big money.
The tempting advert promises that you can earn £200 a week assembling jewellery boxes from flat-pack kits delivered to your door. All you have to do is send a joining fee of £15.

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