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eWork survey

Undertaking an eWork profile could be difficult given the sometimes competitive and confidential nature of developments, as well as the fact that many relevant developments will not be considered as ‘eWork’ but simply as normal work relying, to a greater or lesser extent, on ICT.

It may be useful to categorise the region’s eWork on the basis of the EMERGENCE eWork categories.

An eWork survey could be constructed using this example checklist matrix.

Example points to cover:	a) overview synopsis of eWork in existing companies and organisations in the region (both actual companies and types of company)	b) synoptic review of eWork in existing companies and organisations in the region which has potential to be lost to other regions (see regional eWork push factors)	c) synoptic review of eWork in existing companies and organisations out of the region which has potential to be gained by the region (see regional eWork pull factors)	d) prognosis of likely eWork developments which could affect eWork in the region in future and which has potential to be lost or gained by the region
Sizes (employees, turnover, etc.)				Points here will be more speculative and general, and not all relevant. A wider regional, national and international economic review is likely to be needed. The prognosis could include policy analysis and scenario and/or foresight development exercises.
Organisational characteristics (ownership and group relations, number and type of establishments, affiliations, mergers, partnerships, networks, etc.)
Locations (see eWork by country and eWork by region)
Economic sectors they participate in
Business functions and activities
Use of ICT (see supply side dynamics of regional ICT, and use of ICT and the digitisation of work)
Characterisation of type of knowledge on the explicit-tacit knowledge continuum
Skills and competencies of staff
Training and personnel policies and activities
Social partner and labour market aspects seen from company perspective
General trading relations (outsourcing, insourcing, scale, partners, locations, etc.): overlap with columns b) and c)
Existing eWork types and extent, the eWork relocation process involved, and has it led to job gain, job loss and/or change in work conditions and quality, etc.?
Other

Useful references:

  The role of eWork in regional development

  eWork and regional development — the evidence from EMERGENCE

  eWork relocation

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