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Telework Ireland To Study Teleworking Impact Telework
Ireland - the Professional Association of Teleworkers in Ireland - has announced a major
survey which will quantify the potential impact of telecommuting on Dublin's increasing
traffic gridlock. Commuters in the Greater Dublin area are reporting travel time of as
much as 1 1/2 hours for journeys of 10 miles during peak-hours. Parking space is also at a
premium - costing as much as 317.00 per day. The increasing grid-lock is proving
increasingly expensive to businesses and workers, in terms of time and money alike.
The survey, which is sponsored by Telecom Eireann, will be carried out in conjunction with
the Dublin Transportation Office.
"Telecommuting is a simple but hugely under-utilised concept ", says Riona
Carroll, Executive Officer of Telework Ireland. "The basic idea is that, using our
excellent telecommunications system, coupled with data transfer technology, much of the
work which is carried out today in city based, and usually very expensive, office space,
can actually be done from the worker's home or a serviced out-centre in a cost effective
and frequently more productive manner. The results of work are passed down the telephone
lines - in voice or file format - rather than the worker travelling in a fixed routine way
to a specific place to do the same job. Using this logical organisation
al method saves time, money and other valuable resources, as well as freeing our roads
from much unnecessary and routine congestion".
The survey will sample employers' attitudes towards telecommuting as well as other
relevant factors, such as unproductive
time spent travelling to a centralised place of work and environmental pollution. A
representative sample in the Greater Dublin area will be tested, as well as the Dublin
bound commuter belts of counties Meath, Louth, Wicklow and Kildare. The impact of
regular commuters working from home occasionally - say 1 - 2 days per week, an option
which is often preferred by employers and employees alike - will also be included. With
the application of appropriate weightings to take into account local demographics, the
results of the Survey can be applied to traffic congestion problems in Ireland's other
major cities such as Galway, Limerick and Belfast
The potential of teleworking and telecommuting has been recognised by the Irish Government
with the establishment by Mr. Noel Treacy T.D., Minister for Science, Technology and
Commerce, of the National Advisory Council on Teleworking.
Telework Ireland - a voluntary organisation which aims to analyse and act in a positive
and practical way on the implications of teleworking in all its aspects - does not
anticipate that telecommuting alone will be the solution to our cities' increasing traffic
problems. They do, however, expect that the results of this survey will demonstrate that
the application of telecommuting policies will be a major contributor towards solving
these basic problems, which at present seem inevitable and insurmountable.
The results of the survey will be announced at Telework Ireland's Sixth National
Conference in November and will be published on Telework Ireland's web site:
http://www.telework.ie
Contact details: Riona Carroll, Executive Officer, Telework Ireland
Phone: +353 47 72069
Fax: +353 47 72070
E-mail: riona@telework.ie
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