p2pnet.net News:- Falling laptop prices, better remote access technologies and widespread broadband are driving people into the home office, says a report.

Eighty percent of companies worldwide expect to have employees who ‘telework’ by 2005, up from 54% in 2003, states a recent AT&T survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) says 80% and quoted by Intellisync here.

The International Telework Association & Council (ITAC) recently reported the number of home-based teleworkers in the US grew 63.2% between 1999 and 2003, it says, adding:

"There were 21m people teleworking in the European Union in 2002, according to a survey from Bonn Empirica for the Statistical Indicators Benchmarking the Information Society Project (SIBIS) – a total that has doubled over the previous three years. Taking all types of telework together, 13% of the working population in the EU can be classified as teleworkers.

"Bonn Empirica surveyed 11,800 people across the EU and found that Germany has the greatest number of teleworkers, with 6m Germans "occasionally" teleworking, up from 2m in 1999."

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