Deployment of Telework in European Public Administrations

Occupational Health and Safety (OHS)
Among the 15 organisations there are only two stating that a shift towards telework did not make
them consider matters of occupational health and safety in particular. In a few cases a risk
assessment of home offices took place. Eight of the 15 organisations (all of them situated in
Middle and Northern Europe) cared for the ergonometric adjustment of workplaces and regulated
the procedures in the case of work injuries (prevention, burden of proof, insurance). Our findings
seem to confirm stereotypes about different national work cultures, for it has been the
interviewees from the three Scandinavian organisations that gave the most extensive and detailed
statements regarding the issue.
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