T 2.50 Delays caused by a temporarily restricted availability of teleworkers

Usually, teleworkers do not observe fixed working periods at their home working place. Only certain stand-by periods at home are agreed upon. In the case of alternate teleworking, working periods are divided among work at home and work at the institution. If information needs to be obtained from, or provided to a teleworker, this will cause a delay in operations, due to a restricted availability of the teleworker. Even a transfer of information via E-mail does not necessarily shorten response times, as it is not guaranteed that the telecommuter will read the mail in certain time intervals.