The Chinese economy has been expanding for more than 20 years. However, the high-speed growth of the economy has also brought an increasing number of serious social and economical issues. As a way to reduce the forecasted impacts such as lack of qualified workforce, concentration of people in big cities, traffic conditions, etc, telework adoption could be addressed for China. This paper aims to assess the telework readiness of Chinese organizations by conducting an internet survey. The survey results revealed the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese organizations in terms of readiness for telework adoption.

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In this paper, we discuss whether or not home-based telework in private enterprises and local self-governing bodies has an employment promotion effect. If employment promotion effects are present, we investigate who is being affected and what is the employment form in that home-based telework. For the analysis, we use the interview investigation of 13 cases that we conducted between November, 2000 and December, 2002. Throughout this research, we claim that the effects for employment have two aspects in home-based telework. The first is an employment maintenance effect in terms of improving and maintaining employees' environment, such as childcare. The second is an employment promotion effect for new hires, e.g.,disabled people, that arise as a result of introducing home-based telework. By re-adjusting those effects for employment in home-based telework, we propose an arrangement of work environment both in private enterprises and local self-governing bodies.

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In 1998 Mitaka City conceived the "SOHO CITY MITAKA" plan well in advance of all other self-governing bodies in Japan. In April 2003 the "SOHO Venture College" program was established. The purpose of this business education program is to help companies improve their business plan/model and business practices. Since the start of the SOHO Venture College, the results of several student questioner surveys identified the need to establish a mentor system within the SOHO Venture College.

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