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The Australian Communications and Media Authority has released figures showing an estimated 5.6 million adult Australians (over 18 years) are ‘digital workers.’

This means they either use the internet to work away from the office outside ‘standard working hours’ or are ‘teleworkers’ who work away from the office for all or part of the day.
 
During that time, digital workers made up 51% of the total number of employed Australians. This increased to 59% of employed persons aged 35-44 and 70% of employed persons with a university qualification.
 
The graph below shows the division of the use of internet to work away from the office:
 
The most used device by digital workers is a laptop, either their own or provided by their employer to work from home. Other popular devices include smartphones and tablets. See the graph below showing which devices were most popular with digital workers:

 
This comes at a time when a recent American study revealed that more people are listening to online radio and the majority of people online listen to internet radio.
 
In addition, the new research from the ACMA showing that more people are becoming digital workers in combination with figures showing the majority of online users listen to internet radio, could indicate why music royalty companies, like PPCA, were asking that any music streamed also attract extra copyright and royalty fees. Recently, the PPCA was successful in the Australian High Court in relation to charging royalty fees for streaming music on an online platform.

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