According to a note published in Infobae , telework has almost 6% of the employed population.
This time work is concentrated in Buenos Aires (26.7% of households work tasks are performed remotely located in the city of Buenos Aires), Cordoba, Rosario and Mendoza, and has a close relationship with access to broadband connections to the Internet, which favor it. The Ministry of Labour will drive the public sector. He informed iProfesional.com
Laura Viviana Diaz, advisor to the Labour Minister Carlos Tomada, in the areas of telework, this mode is already present in more than 1.3 million and a half of households that function as offices.
This is an "exponential growth", said Tomada, if one takes into account that in 2004, according to these official estimates, there 320,000 households, and in 2007 some 589,000. In late 2008, as calculated Diaz, teleworking had a penetration of 5.86 percent among the employed population of the country.
telework in Argentina is not regulated by law. The Labour Ministry sent a bill to Congress. While waiting for a legislative definition, since 2008 made up pilot programs and promotion of teleworking in private companies, called Propet. YPF and Telecom were among the companies that signed the plans, and last Tuesday joined the initiative, the local subsidiary of Cisco, the world's largest maker of equipment for communications networks.
While 60% of the approximately Cisco 200 employees in Argentina and practice telework as iProfesional.com informed company sources, the program signed by Taken and company director, Horacio Werner, will reach 57 workers and professionals of the firm.
The aim of these plans, along with other initiatives in the area for the Coordination of Telework ministry, headed by Diaz, to promote this mode as a new form of labor organization, providing tools, knowledge and certainty.
For the Propet, plus a laptop and a network connection is supplied with a fire extinguisher and desktop items, such as chairs suitable for computing tasks, and the participant signs a clause protection and data privacy. Within a week, said Diaz will deliver the first manuals of specific occupational health and safety for telecommuters.
agreements between the ministry and companies have six months and may be extended for another similar period. During this time, the ministry made "a controller monitoring and experience, and is in contact with businesses and workers," said Diaz.
Through the use of ICTs, remote workers can perform their activities and collaborate with others from home or from anywhere, regardless a common physical environment. According to Diaz, what differentiates a teleworker an employee of a contact or communication with the customer ("call center" in English) is that the work task "is done in a foreign place to work."
This time work is concentrated in Buenos Aires (26.7% of households work tasks are performed remotely located in the city of Buenos Aires), Cordoba, Rosario and Mendoza, and has a close relationship with access to broadband connections to the Internet, which favor it. The Ministry of Labour will drive the public sector. He informed iProfesional.com
Laura Viviana Diaz, advisor to the Labour Minister Carlos Tomada, in the areas of telework, this mode is already present in more than 1.3 million and a half of households that function as offices.
This is an "exponential growth", said Tomada, if one takes into account that in 2004, according to these official estimates, there 320,000 households, and in 2007 some 589,000. In late 2008, as calculated Diaz, teleworking had a penetration of 5.86 percent among the employed population of the country.
telework in Argentina is not regulated by law. The Labour Ministry sent a bill to Congress. While waiting for a legislative definition, since 2008 made up pilot programs and promotion of teleworking in private companies, called Propet. YPF and Telecom were among the companies that signed the plans, and last Tuesday joined the initiative, the local subsidiary of Cisco, the world's largest maker of equipment for communications networks.
While 60% of the approximately Cisco 200 employees in Argentina and practice telework as iProfesional.com informed company sources, the program signed by Taken and company director, Horacio Werner, will reach 57 workers and professionals of the firm.
The aim of these plans, along with other initiatives in the area for the Coordination of Telework ministry, headed by Diaz, to promote this mode as a new form of labor organization, providing tools, knowledge and certainty.
For the Propet, plus a laptop and a network connection is supplied with a fire extinguisher and desktop items, such as chairs suitable for computing tasks, and the participant signs a clause protection and data privacy. Within a week, said Diaz will deliver the first manuals of specific occupational health and safety for telecommuters.
agreements between the ministry and companies have six months and may be extended for another similar period. During this time, the ministry made "a controller monitoring and experience, and is in contact with businesses and workers," said Diaz.
Through the use of ICTs, remote workers can perform their activities and collaborate with others from home or from anywhere, regardless a common physical environment. According to Diaz, what differentiates a teleworker an employee of a contact or communication with the customer ("call center" in English) is that the work task "is done in a foreign place to work."
Vulnerable
Taken acknowledged that telework is a form of work organization that is imposed from the top of the resolutions ", but warned that" should have regulations, "to companies and organizations and employees "of their obligations and their rights."
"Telework is a response to a need for companies, is a response to society," said minister, who gave as an example is the employment of people with disabilities, those over 45 years who suffer "significant difficulties in accessing employment," and young people aged between 18 and 24 years who have "knowledge related to these technologies much more widespread than other" knowledge.
As the public sector, Tomada said he does not believe "there should be objections to the extension of teleworking in government offices. "It's a challenge we must face, "he said, to which have already developed a plan to implement in its own portfolio. In this regard, Diaz pointed to iProfesional.com that begin with 20 or 30 employees from different areas.
"Telework is a response to a need for companies, is a response to society," said minister, who gave as an example is the employment of people with disabilities, those over 45 years who suffer "significant difficulties in accessing employment," and young people aged between 18 and 24 years who have "knowledge related to these technologies much more widespread than other" knowledge.
As the public sector, Tomada said he does not believe "there should be objections to the extension of teleworking in government offices. "It's a challenge we must face, "he said, to which have already developed a plan to implement in its own portfolio. In this regard, Diaz pointed to iProfesional.com that begin with 20 or 30 employees from different areas.
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