ABSTRACT
Since the 1970s there have been many over-optimistic predictions on the growth of teleworking. For instance, in 1971 AT&T was anticipating that all Americans would be working from home by 1990. More recent predictions, though, have been modified, with teleworking now viewed as an evolutionary rather than revolutionary development. Despite this, Gray, Hodson and Gordon – three telework promoters – write: ‘with the increasing availability, and decreasing cost, of the enabling technology, the end of the [world] recession could signal the start of the teleworking boom’ (1993: 22).
