Slide 12 of 14
Notes:
So much for Europe’s overall position. No let’s look inside Europe. We find even greater internal differences between countries in Europe than those between Europe as a whole and the USA as a whole.
The top line here shows the European average. The shorter, blue line shows the number of teleworkers in formally supported company telework schemes, the longer line shows the total number of teleworkers of all kinds in each country. The scale shows telework as a percentage of the total workforce, so as to take into account the very great differences in the size of workforce in each country.
We see that at least one European country, Denmark, is on a par with the USA. But there is a large cluster of countries in which telework has to date scarcely featured.
In a moment we will see some additional data from which the obvious conclusion is that the most well known form of telework, telecommuting, which is well established and rapidly growing in the USA and ins ome European countries, is simply not relevant to some other European countries at all.
