Deployment of Telework in European Public Administrations

3.10. Working arrangements*
Most of the teleworkers in our case studies are fully employed; in ten bureaucracies the figure was
100%. Only in the Greek example were no teleworkers permanently employed and working on a
part-time basis. In one of our British cases all the teleworkers work part-time permanent jobs
(with permanent contracts, but working on part-time basis). In all the other cases between 66%
and 98% of the teleworkers were fully employed. In nine cases between two and 40% had part-
time permanent employment. The Municipality of Rome is the only case where we find
teleworkers as regular self-employed sub-contractors (one fifth of the Municipality's
teleworkers).
In general, telework optimists promise job creation, pessimists fear a loss of jobs and
disarrangement of regular employment configurations. Our cases are too few, too recent and too
heterogeneous to allow any conclusions for a future development in either one direction or
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