Telework in the scenarios for the future of work

Patricia Vendramin is a project manager at the Work & Technology Research Unit of the Fondation Travail-Universite in Namur. She has a background in sociology (1981) and communication sciences (1983); she also completed a master degree in development studies (1983), both at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, where she started doing research in 1983. She is a researcher at the FTU since 1988 and a project manager since 1992. She is involved in the design and implementation of several research projects on social and economic aspects of new information and communication technology in industries and services. Her main research interests are new flexible work practices, distance working, new work organisation in manufacturing and services, and new needs in skills and training. She is responsible for the contribution of FTU to the FLEXCOT project (flexible work practices and communication technologies) for the TSER programme in the fourth framework programme. She also manages the TACTIQ project for the European Social Fund (Advanced communication technology, industrial changes and qualifications). She also carries out research and publications for the EMERIT programme and is responsible for the Walloon newsletter on technology assessment "La Lettre EMERIT". She is coauthor, with Gerard Valenduc, of the book "Le travail a distance dans la societe de l’information" (Distance working in the information society, 1997).