Deployment of Telework in European Public Administrations

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Part Two: Selected Cases
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Gewerkschaft der Privatangestellten (GPA) (1996).
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Organised by DIPLOMAT, AC 222, Vienna City Hall, 28 March 1998.
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see Aichholzer, Georg/Kirschner, Andrea (1996), p. 4.

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Since 1995 employees of the Federal Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, including
teachers have been carrying out and administering distance learning-courses from home offices
and satellite offices. The IT department of the City of Vienna is at present in the early planning
stages of a trial comprising 36 civil servants. Telework is regarded as a priority of further targeted
organisational change focusing on staff members’ creative potential, efficiency and improvement
of internal communication between departments, and the emergence of ‘management by trust’.
One of the most interesting examples is given by the Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying,
where telework is outlined as a component of far reaching structural change.