The number of people using new information and communication technologies to work from home or on the move could reach more than 27 million in Europe by 2010.
This is the conclusion of a report by the Brighton-based Institute for Employment Studies, which identified four types of e-workers:
Telehomeworkers; multi-locational e-workers; e-lancers, and; the e-enabled self-employed.
Multilocational e-workers, who alternate between a home and an office workstation, form the most numerous group, expected to grow from 3.7 million in the EU in 2000 to more than 14 million by 2010.
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