What jobs are best suited for telework?
Telework may not be suited for every job, but it can be adapted to many. It is important to distinguish between telework jobs and telework job functions. Some jobs can be completely performed off-site. The jobs that seem to show the most productive results from telework are information-based jobs. A survey conducted by MITE- Midwest Institute for Telework Education and the Humphrey Institute (2007) [add link to survey here (www.mite.org) found that telework opportunities existed in a wide number of sectors. The table below shows that while there was some variation between the types of work done by teleworkers between public and private employers, at least 10 different job functions were listed by respondents as being conducted by teleworkers.
