Teleworking Research Project

Teleworking – Building capacity, Sustaining Rural and Regional Communities, and Creating Opportunities for Women was a research project conducted for the Foundation of Australian Agricultural Women (FAAW).

The project followed on from the Australian Teleworking Advisory Committee enquiry conducted by the Federal Government in 2005 which recommended that the Government support the adoption and uptake of telework in Australia. In order to highlight the potential of telework for women in rural, regional and remote Australia FAAW made a submission to ATAC.

The project was funded by the Australian Government Office for Women under the Women’s Leadership and Development Programme and had invaluable guidance from a steering committee.

The project aimed to enhance teleworking opportunities for women in rural, regional and remote areas by:

  • providing data on women’s skills and experience, women’s capacity to telework and interest in teleworking, and teleworking barriers and opportunities,
  • disseminating findings, and
  • establishing a database of women, employers and other parties interested in locating telework opportunities and following the progress of telework strategies in Australia.

Join the teleworking discussion group

FAAW has set up an email discussion group through Yahoo groups called FAAW rural telework to discuss issues and opportunities relating to telework for rural women. Those subscribed are welcome to raise or respond to any topic thread related to rural teleworking.

The group is for:

  • Rural women who are teleworking
  • Rural women who would like to telework
  • Employers of teleworkers
  • Researchers interested in the topic
  • Government departments with an interest in the topic
  • Businesses who are already employing rural teleworkers and/or would like to go this way
  • Anyone with an interest in this topic
     

Chris Capel and Professor Margaret Alston, Directors of FAAW, moderate the email group. FAAW takes no responsibility for opinions shared during the course of discussion our role is the facilitate the discussion.

Anyone who would like to join please email Chris Capel at capel@tpg.com.au with a request to join.