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How can I find teleworkers to interview?

Researchers are often asked to provide the names of people they have interviewed to journalists or to other researchers. It is a breach of professional ethics (and, very often, data protection legislation) to provide such details unless the respondents have explicitly given their permission in advance.

So don't waste your time coming to us for names. Do your own research. It isn't difficult.

Random door-knocking would probably throw you up a sample in the course of a morning.

Freelance teleworkers can often be found through the Yellow Pages or specialist directories or agencies, because they are anxious to publicise their services. Following up advertisements or asking around (e.g. in your local photocopy shop) will also quickly find you people who do word processing from home.
If you want to catch people who sometimes commute into the office and sometimes don't, why not try asking questions at a suburban railway station at 7.15 a.m.?

There are lots of other ways, e.g. readership surveys of magazines, appeals on the radio, hardware or software user surveys etc.

Good Luck!

click here for details of reports of surveys of teleworkers and/or homeworkers we have done in the past


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