ABSTRACT
Despite the hype of recent years — culminating in the socalled ‘discovery’ of the Internet by private enterprise in the mid-1990s — teleworking is not new. Any sales representative serving a remote corner of any region or country, selling his or her wares and calling in the orders to a distant production facility, is — by most definitions — a teleworker. For decades, market research firms have used home-based teleinterviewers. Those infamous double-glazing, encyclopaedia and Bordeaux wine sellers are most likely to be home-based.
