By Michael White, Stephen M. Hill, Colin Mills, Deborah Smeaton
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A striking point from the chart is that already at one in three workplaces there is a complete penetration of ICT to every job, or something very close to that. Moreover, these fully-wired workplaces are evenly spread across the small, medium and large size-groups. Equally striking, at the other extreme, is how few workplaces are virtually without ICT: only one in 20 overall, and just one per cent in the large workplaces. 38 The estimate which we have derived is, around two-thirds. This is very close to the figure obtained from the companion survey of employees (WIB-00), where 65 per cent of employees said that they currently use PCs or computerised equipment in their own jobs.
As most workplaces use outsourcing to some extent, this process could well develop further in the years to come. Of course, this also depends on service businesses being set up to meet the potential demand for outsourcing. 17 So outsourcing and contracting-in are not only widespread, they are genuinely shifting employment from the purchasing organisations to the 30 Managing to Change? supplier organisations. The survey did not go into the numbers involved, as this would have been hard for managers to estimate reliably.
The rate of increase has been particularly high in large workplaces, but less in small workplaces. More interesting, though, is to see where that growth has been taking place, compared to the current level of ICT usage. 5. 3 Medium Large All ICT usage* by employees at workplaces of different sizes * The proportion of employees using PCs or other computerised equipment, estimated to the nearest 25 per cent (see legend at right of chart). Note: Column percentages, weighted by employment. 4 Change in ICT usage, by size of workplace Note: Column percentages, weighted by employment.