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Part Three: Comparisons and Conclusions

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‘privilege’. Thus, in pilot phases the selection of teleworkers is expressed often the other way
around. The question is not who might be forced, but who is allowed to telework. Here, we have
to consider again that most of our cases are fairly recent experiments with the character of a ‘trial’.
We assume that in the early phases of pilots the promise of ‘freedom’ (the idea of telework as
somehow ‘non-work’) might play an important role (perhaps enhanced in public administrations),
whereas it needs a certain time of experiences to get a realistic view on the individual advantages
and disadvantages of a new way to work. Thus, the actual relevance of a principle of voluntariness
might increase with time and a quantitative growth of decentralised work performance.