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1. Telework in Australia –
Challenges and
Opportunities
Abul Rizvi, Deputy Secretary, Digital Economy
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2. Presentation Overview
> Definitions of Telework
> Benefits of Telework
> Promotion of Telework
> Progress to date
> Opportunities and Challenges

3. 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

4. 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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6. Promotion of Telework
www.telework.gov.au
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7. > 2012
– Raised awareness of benefits
> 2013
– Training and skills for managers
and employees
> 200+ Telework Partners
What the Government is doing

8. 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

9. Telework: SMEs
> Case study
– Active Billing
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Source: MYOB Business Monitor, 2013

10. 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

11. Inadequate broadband

12. Broadband penetration and telework

13. Australians’ growing appetite for
bandwidth

14. Employer attitudes

15. Aging workforce
Total fertility rate Life expectancy at birth
45
50
55
60
65
70
75
80
85
90
95
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1,5
2,5
3,5
4,5
5,5
6,5
Australia Colombia
Source: World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision, UN DESA

16. 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

17. Women in the workforce
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45
55
65
75
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

18. Regional population decline
Colombia
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Australia
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
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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

19. Debating traffic congestion solutions
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64%
34%
2%
Australia Investment in roads
Investment in public transport
Telework
63%
36%
1%
Colombia

20. Thank you
> For more information
– Visit:
• www.telework.gov.au
– Contact:
• telework@communications.gov.au