Browsing by Author "Lokka, Johannes"

Aims. This Bachelor thesis considers with gainful employment which is done at households in the Uusimaa province. The aim of this research was to find out how common is to do a gainful employment at home and secondly, has the educational background an effect to it. Also those background factors were investigated which made teleworking at home possible. The subject is current because the number of teleworkers has increased year by year in the 2000s. A lot of teleworking is done at home. Methods. The material of the thesis was collected by Helsingin Sanomat in 2016. The survey was answered by 13381 people from all over Finland. Uusimaa was cropped as the research area because just over half of the responses, 6904, had come from Uusimaa. Responses from other provinces were fairly under-represented. Quantitative comparisons were made using cross-tabulation. IBM SPSS-statistics was used to analyze large amounts of research data. Results and conclusions. According to the results, 71.4 percent of the participants worked at home a few times a month or more often. Working at home was more common among poly- technics or masters of arts than at other educational levels. Working at home was common in Uusimaa compared to previous research results. Other reports found similar evidence that home-based gainful employment was more common among those with a polytechnic degree or a master of arts degree than those with lower education level.