Deployment of Telework in European Public Administrations

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The third industrial revolution is intertwined with the growth of the service sector as observed for
the OECD countries for the last three decades
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and characterised by a shift from manufacturing to
the processing of digitised information.
Table 1: 
Service Employment Trends: Services as % of Total Employment
Source: OECD, Historical Statistics (1996)
In Europe's post-industrial societies that presently share a bias towards a common reduction of
state expenditure and liberalisation of markets, ‘telework’ is one expression for new individual
and economic flexibility in work organisation Other expressions for new flexibility are the
increased use of digital Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the globalised
competition of services as well as labour force. Thus, telework serves as a concretion and as a
metaphor manifesting and reflecting the following trends:
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ICT-based rationalisation and reorganisation of work;
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structural changes of the labour markets;