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Teleworking and excess work
Teleworking and excess work
Those Australians that were in full time employment also had a greater propensity to telework (33 per cent). This is perhaps not surprising when looking at the top chart on this page, which found that of those Australians that were employed, 43 per cent reported that they regularly had to work outside their paid hours just to complete their workload, with a further 30 per cent saying that they occasionally did this. Of those, some 37 per cent said that they did at least some of this work at home, with 77 per cent saying that they did at least some of this at their regular workplace. This highlights the inherent difficulties in defining teleworking. Should this be seen as teleworking if technology of some form is involved?
From the survey, there was a correlation between working significant excess hours and identifying as a teleworker. While those that only worked excess hours occasionally were no more likely than the general working population to consider themselves teleworkers (30 per cent), those that regularly worked excess hours were considerably more likely to telework, with 41 per cent reporting teleworking. Only 11 per cent of those that never worked excess hours reporting that they teleworked.
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