This article offers a new perspective on telecommuting from the viewpoint of the complex web of digital divides. Using the United Kingdom as a case study, this article studies how the quality and reliability of Internet services, as reflected in experienced Internet upload speeds during the spring 2020 lockdown, might reinforce or redress the spatial and social dimensions of digital divisions. Fast, reliable Internet connections are necessary for the population to be able to work from home. Although not every place hosts individuals in occupations that allow for telecommuting or with the necessary skills to effectively use the Internet to telecommute, good Internet connectivity is also essential to local economic resilience in a period like the current pandemic. Employing data on individual broadband speed tests and state-of-the-art time series clustering methods, we create clusters of UK local authorities with similar temporal signatures of experienced upload speeds. We then associate these clusters of local authorities with their socioeconomic and geographic characteristics to explore how they overlap with or diverge from the existing economic and digital geography of the United Kingdom. Our analysis enables us to better understand how the spatial and social distributions of both occupations and online accessibility intersect to enable or hinder the practice of telecommuting at a time of extreme demand.

本文从复杂的数字鸿沟网络的角度为远程办公提供了一个新的视角。本文以英国为例，研究了互联网服务的质量和可靠性（如 2020 年春季封锁期间的互联网上传速度所反映的那样）可能会加强或纠正数字划分的空间和社会维度。人们需要快速、可靠的互联网连接才能在家工作。尽管并非每个地方都有允许远程办公或具备有效使用互联网进行远程办公的必要技能的个人，但在当前大流行这样的时期，良好的互联网连接对于当地经济恢复能力也至关重要。利用个人宽带速度测试数据和最先进的时间序列聚类方法，我们创建了英国地方当局的集群，它们具有相似的上传速度的时间特征。然后，我们将这些地方当局集群与其社会经济和地理特征联系起来，以探索它们如何与英国现有的经济和数字地理重叠或偏离。我们的分析使我们能够更好地了解职业和在线可访问性的空间和社会分布如何相交以在极端需求的时候启用或阻碍远程办公的实践。然后，我们将这些地方当局集群与其社会经济和地理特征联系起来，以探索它们如何与英国现有的经济和数字地理重叠或偏离。我们的分析使我们能够更好地了解职业和在线可访问性的空间和社会分布如何相交以在极端需求的时候启用或阻碍远程办公的实践。然后，我们将这些地方当局集群与其社会经济和地理特征联系起来，以探索它们如何与英国现有的经济和数字地理重叠或偏离。我们的分析使我们能够更好地了解职业和在线可访问性的空间和社会分布如何相交以在极端需求的时候启用或阻碍远程办公的实践。