Modern technology makes the transmission of information work at home, in some cases very cost effective. But if the return of jobs in the four walls of his house is quite possible that some unsolved problems still remain.
Work at home - was now a reality thanks to a computer. Installed in the flat panel display at the employee and equipment for word processing or other office work can be connected using a telex or a narrow frequency digital telephone network with the relevant units of the central computer. The work does not require constant personal contact with management, other employees or customers, for example, correspondence, standardized processing of documents, or even making the computer programs can be successfully performed at home.
In the U.S., banks, insurance companies, manufacturers of computer hardware and software it has long led the experiments with the organization of jobs in the home of employees. National Bank of Illinois provides several jobs working at home secretaries. Dictation recorded on magnetic tape, written by Secretary of text displayed on the screen in the bank, and read by a leader who, if necessary, by pressing the "Print" gets the desired text and on paper in the required number of copies.
Already in 1983, thousands of people working at home, performing production tasks. One U.S. insurance companies to process transfers outworker insurance cases, only one American company that creates software products, work at home 180 programmers.
"Siemens' equipped apartments of some housewives - former Secretaries - word processing systems, texts, correspondence, subject, send them by mail (manuscripts, cassette tape), or pass on telephone wires in magnetic recording. Rewrite the text returned to the center by telex and there are further processed.
In the land (area) of Baden-Wuerttemberg started work with the model of remote data to the state government, ministries and departments of Baden-Württemberg has created about 50 jobs out of these institutions directly to the homes of employees. |