Conceptualising the changing locations of work

Alan Felstead

Chapter 2 in A Research Agenda for Flexible Working Arrangements, 2025, pp 21-34 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The pandemic has revolutionised where people work. Set against this background, this chapter has two objectives. First, it demonstrates why the location of work matters. It argues that combining the worlds of work and home in the same place makes homeworking unique. The co-location of previously separate activities poses distinctive challenges for those doing the work, other household members with whom space is being shared, and employers who must manage workers in places not under their control. The chapter's second objective is to examine the challenges of empirically using the concepts of homeworking, hybrid working and remote working to capture this variability. It focuses on the Census of Population and the Labour Force Survey, both carried out in the UK before, during and after the pandemic. Similar types of data are available in many parts of the world, hence adding to the chapter's international appeal.

Keywords: Homeworking; Hybrid working; Remote working; Location of work; Census; Labour force survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035317615
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