ABSTRACT
One of the principal means of halting the spread of coronavirus was the request, sometimes the insistence, that work be carried out at home if possible. The book starts by putting the explosion of interest in the location of work into a historical context. It outlines the debates and issues dominating the field before the outbreak of coronavirus, and the debates and issues prompted by the experience of lengthy, often enforced, periods of homeworking with little or no physical access to the office. In particular, the chapter highlights a significant shift in the type of ‘homeworker’ under discussion, the rising interest in ‘mobile working’, and the post-pandemic interest in ‘remote’ and ‘hybrid’ working.
