Press coverage often stimulates enquiries from people who would like to know more. Such enquirers may be interesting in setting up telecottages, becoming teleworkers themselves, stimulating economic growth through telework or adapting their organisations to take advantage of teleworking opportunities. This volume is intended to help such people by providing detailed information on many important aspects of teleworking. The contents of this volume are drawn from two conferences held during the association's first year. The second was the association's own Practical teleworking conference , held in Enniskillen in October 1994.
Community telecottages normally receive state funding and have training as their main activity.
In Cork, we have quite a lot of specialist work for the chemical industry, and we are researching and looking to specialise further in documentation services for the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries. Commercial telecottages normally don't have funding, and have training as an informal activity which is less important. They too usually have a niche teleworking business which provides their main income. At Cork Teleworking Centre, which I operate, we specialise in publishing tasks. For example, each day we log into the Dow Jones newswires in New York.