Changing workplace geographies in the COVID-19 crisis

Darja Reuschke; Alan Felstead

doi:10.1177/2043820620934249

Changing workplace geographies in the COVID-19 crisis

Darja Reuschke^*, Alan Felstead

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Abstract

COVID-19 has fundamentally changed workplace geographies with large proportions of people working at home during the ‘Great Lockdown’. This commentary argues that working at home has emerged as a key policy response and one in which inequalities are embedded. We outline the nature of these social and spatial inequalities by examining existing evidence and data for the Global North, and consider some of the economic and policy challenges ahead.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	208-212
Number of pages	5
Journal	Dialogues in Human Geography
Volume	10
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820620934249
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2020

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Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Darja Reuschke’s time working on this commentary was funded by the European Research Council (ERC) through the WORKANDHOME Starting Grant (ERC-StG-2014 639403).

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Keywords

COVID-19
flexible working
homeworking
productivity
well-being

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Geography, Planning and Development

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