ABSTRACT

The aim of this paper is to examine the increasing use of the home as a workplace and establish its significance for housing studies. Firstly, the article sketches its historical growth founded in technological and business model changes. Using cross-country datasets, it identifies variations across the EU in the scale and characteristics of home working, which by 2015 was the practice for about 1 in 6 EU workers, a ratio that has been greatly boosted by responses to the coronavirus pandemic. Secondly, the article considers the implications of increasing home working for housing studies. This is illustrated through a consideration of influences on our understanding of housing demand, particularly in terms of housing form and location. Further, we consider consequences for other areas of theory on the meaning of home, boundaries between public and private realms, and gender perspectives on the division of domestic work and space.

摘要

本文的目的是研究越来越多地使用家庭作为工作场所，并确定其对住房研究的意义。首先，本文概述了其基于技术和商业模式变化的历史发展。使用跨国数据集，它确定了欧盟在家庭工作的规模和特征方面的差异，到 2015 年，大约六分之一的欧盟工人都采用这种做法，这一比例因对冠状病毒大流行的反应而大大提高。其次，本文考虑了增加在家工作对住房研究的影响。这可以通过考虑对我们对住房需求的理解的影响来说明，特别是在住房形式和位置方面。此外，我们考虑其他理论领域对家的意义的影响，