Problem statement The global workplace quests for both employer-driven and employee-driven flexibility. Such extent of flexibility goes hand in hand with autonomy for workers to decide where, when and how to work to their own discretion. Autonomy, powered by ICT, makes it possible to work anytime anywhere. Time and place independency and autonomy in work…
To what extent, if any, will employers permit hybrid working? Hybrid working involves a split of time for workers performing their duties at the employer’s business location and their own homes (though it is possible to work from another location). This is the concept of remote working discussed here. Remote work may also be discussed…
The emergence and implementation of the Framework Agreement Twenty years ago, on the 16th of July 2002, the European social partners concluded the first autonomous Framework Agreement. The topic of this Framework Agreement, telework, could not be more relevant today. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the principles laid down in this agreement guided…
