Telework in Australia – Challenges and Opportunities
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Telework in Australia – Challenges and Opportunities
Abul Rizvi, Deputy Secretary, Digital Economy
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Presentation Overview
> Definitions of Telework
> Benefits of Telework
> Promotion of Telework
> Progress to date
> Opportunities and Challenges
Definitions of Telework
> Option 1: – A form of flexible working which is enabled by
ICT and undertaken outside of a traditional office
> Option 2: – Paid employees who conduct their tasks from
home at least one day per week using communications technology
> Option 3: – Arrangement where an employee works from
home on a regular basis using ICT in the same manner as in the traditional office
Benefits of Telework
> Employees
– Work/Life Balance
– Cost and time savings
> Employers
– Increased productivity
– Reduced costs of office accommodation
– Staff retention and attraction
– Improved morale
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> 2012
– Raised awareness of benefits
> 2013
– Training and skills for managers
and employees
> 200+ Telework Partners
What the Government is doing
Industries allowing employees to use ICT to work away from the office
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0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%
Source: Business Use of Information Technology survey, Australian Bureau of Statistics 2013
% work from home % other locations
Telework: SMEs
> Case study
– Active Billing
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Source: MYOB Business Monitor, 2013
Why hasn’t telework taken off?
> Inadequate broadband
> Attitude of employers to telework:
– Aging workforce
– People with disabilities
– Women in the workforce
– Decline of regional populations
> Unbalanced focus of the debate about congestion
Inadequate broadband
Broadband penetration and telework
Australians’ growing appetite for bandwidth
Employer attitudes
Aging workforce
Total fertility rate Life expectancy at birth
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1,5
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Australia Colombia
Source: World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision, UN DESA
People with disabilities
> Case study
– Department for Communities and Social Inclusion, SA
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> In 2012 the ABS estimated that:
– Participation rate: 83%
– Disability participation rate: 53%
Source: Creating jobs through NBN-enabled telework, Deloitte Access Economics 2012
Women in the workforce
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45
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65
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2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012
Australia
Colombia
United States
Latin America &Caribbean
OECD males
Source: Labor force participation rate, female (% of female population ages 15+), World Bank
Regional population decline
Colombia
0%
10%
20%
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50%
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Australia
0%
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50%
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% of pop. urban % of pop. rural
Source: World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision and World Urbanization Prospects: The 2011 Revision, UN DESA
Debating traffic congestion solutions
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64%
34%
2% Australia Investment in roads
Investment in public transport
Telework
63%
36%
1%
Colombia
Thank you
> For more information
– Visit:
• www.telework.gov.au
– Contact: