Telepraca – zatrudnienie przyjazne rodzinie?
Telework – family-friendly employment?

Summary/Abstract: Numerous projects and programmes promote telework as a form of support for unemployed carers of dependent family members, especially children. However, not everyone can be a teleworker: some personality traits (self-discipline, loyalty, the ability to organize one’s own time and to be consistent) are essential. Telework interferes with family life; it has a negative effect on the functioning of the household. Long work hours and disproportionately low wages are sometimes the price that has to be paid. Telework is also associated with isolation in the work environment, which results in a lack of job satisfaction. Government programmes support telework for unemployed carers, but employers are reluctant to offer this form of employment. They fear that teleworkers will not be able to meet duties resulting from working without supervision, performed under the pressure of employers and family responsibilities.

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