ABSTRACT
The nature of work has changed due to the rise of the knowledge economy and technological development. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work was still a privilege available primarily to the elite workers of the knowledge economy. During the pandemic, however, what had been a privilege to the few became a duty for many. This chapter analyses the representation of remote work in the newspapers of three countries (France, the United States and Estonia) with different cultural values and labour laws. The chapter uses a Foucauldian framework to identify potential long-term spatio-temporal shifts in the understanding of work and both universal and culturally specific patterns of representation.
