5 Remote Working and the Employee
‘Working from home for over a year, at a desk only a few metres away from the TV and the kitchen, with very little natural self-control hasn’t been good for my waistline or my time management. Sometimes it’s half past midnight and I’m still on the computer’, Alexander Holland, computer chip designer, Oxford, 10 May 2021.
‘There’s a pressure to check emails, jump on video calls and to be on hand at all hours of the day, and it’s become harder to draw a line between work and home life’, Claire Mullaly, information technology analyst, Northern Ireland, 3 June 2021.
5.1 Introduction
Before the pandemic, job quality was making headlines with policymakers at all levels – internationally, ...
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