Telework and working from home, encouraged by employers' organizations and unions to reduce traffic, have been booming. At the end of 2007, half the businesses employing more than 10 people appealed to telework, according to figures published on January 9, 2009 by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), which is twice higher than in 2003. (Ref. 090043)
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Businesses
appealing the most to this form of work are large businesses with more than 250 employees. Thus, in nine large businesses in ten, employees regularly
work from home. In businesses with
less than 50 employees, 43% of employers allow telework. “There is still a lot
of reluctance” said Lodewijk de Waal, former general secretary of the
Federation of Dutch Unions (FNV) and president of a workgroup on mobility (taskforce
mobiliteit
).”Employers agree on principle, but average supervisory le

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