The presentation reviews the existing research on the nature and extent of networking and more precisely teleworking in USA and Europe.
Teleworking is a new form of working still in a process of evolution.
Networking and by extension teleworking are not a single, easily-measured phenomenon but, on the contrary, comprises a range of different types of employment which have in common only the fact that they involve some form of relocation of work which has been facilitated by the combined use of information and communication technologies. The word is used in a variety of different senses in different contexts. Indeed, since this is a comparatively new form of working still in a process of evolution, it would probably be undesirable to attempt to impose a rigid form upon it. The most useful starting point for any research on the subject is a recognition that the introduction of new information and communication technologies has opened up a range of new options in the organisation of work . It is regarded as one of a number of types of flexiblity rather than any specific form of work.