Research

A variety of organisations have been researching telework in Australia and New Zealand, as well as further afield. If you know of additional reports that should be mentioned on this web site please contact the site administrator.

The University of Sydney is researching the ideal community for teleworkers to live/work in. The study is investigating whether the different lifestyle of teleworkers who spend more hours in their residential communities, live, work and play in the same localities demands a different set of design attributes. You are invited to participate in an online survey that takes only about 10 minutes to complete, and have your say in the design of future residential communities that embrace telework. Please find the questionnaire in the following link: http://FreeOnlineSurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=958mkvdi94y156p476490 Your participation is important and your answers are valuable.

(A wide ranging selection of international research is available at the Journal of E-Work.)

Congestion Mitigation Commission Technical Analysis: Telecommuting Incentives December 2007. This report (a PDF) was prepared for New York City by Cambridge Systematics.

Telework Exchange Face to Face with Management Reality October 2007. Available from the Telework Exchange web site.

CPA Australia Telework: a scoping study August 2007. Available from the CPA Australia web site

Telecommunications Journal of Australia Broadband Telecommunications and Urban Travel 2007, R J Nairn. This paper was one of the winners of the Eckermann-TJA prize in the Broadband Environmental Sustainability Challenge run under the auspices of the Telecommunications Society of Australia (see www.tsa.org.au) in 2007.

The Sensis Business Index Teleworking Research Report July 2007 Download (PDF) >>

Kathy Leotta, Parsons Brinckerhoff Implementing the Most Effective Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Strategies to Quickly Reduce Oil Consumption January 2007 Download (PDF) >>

Foundation for Australian Agricultural Women Teleworking – Building capacity, Sustaining Rural and Regional Communities, and Creating Opportunities for Women. The full research report, executive summary and promotional brochure is available on the FAAW web site.

S.A.Whiteman and G.N.Dick, University of New South Wales Telecommuting – In this virtual world, what is holding it back? This study formed part of the proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Telework, Fredericton, Canada 2006.

Telework New Zealand Waitakere City Council: Telework and Travel August 2004. Download (MS Word) >>

Journal of Leadership Studies Telecommuting in the 21st Century: benefits, issues and a leadership model which will work. 22 March 2002  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9132499_ITM

Meyers, N., & Hearn, G. Communication and control: Case studies in Australian telecommuting, published in the Australian Journal of Communication, 27 (2), pp.39-64. (2000). This article (PDF) focuses on the results of 39 in-depth semi-structured interviews from 12 Australian organizations conducted as part of Meyers' PhD in telework (awarded 2000). His qualitative data mentioned in the article was also used to develop a questionnaire for a quantitative study with N=155 Australian and US teleworkers which further examined predictive factors (teleworker job satisfaction; teleworker productivity; teleworker lifestyle satisfaction) as contributors to sustainable telecommuting/telework.

Telework New Zealand Wellington Regional Council TDM Project: The employer's survey May 2000. Download (MS Word) >>