The surge in homeworking and new key issues for regional studies

Reuschke, Darja

doi:10.1080/13673882.2021.00001081

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“…Across the world, the Covid-19 pandemic caused widespread disruption to working practices, including, most saliently, a vast increase in working from home (WFH). The share of the labour force working from home increased from around 5% to over 40% in the U.S. during the first lockdown of Spring 2020 (Bloom, 2020), with a similar change seen in the UK (Reuschke and Felstead, 2020). As the pandemic progressed, evidence accumulated that increased WFH will likely persist for the foreseeable future (Barrero et al, 2021b).…”

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Worker Productivity During Covid-19 and Adaptation to Working from Home

Etheridge

Burdett

Tang

et al. 2023

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Worker Productivity During Covid-19 and Adaptation to Working from Home

Etheridge

Burdett

Tang

et al. 2023

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Migration Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of New England Showing Movements down the Urban Hierarchy and Ensuing Impacts on Real Estate Markets

Nelson

Frost

2022

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Ovtracht

2022

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Originally associated to big cities' centres, coworking spaces and «third-places» have been blooming in rural regions and small towns over the past five years. The development of those places has been critically supported by local and national authorities, with a growing interest from rural localities. Indeed, those places are supposed to provide answers to numerous contemporary territorial challenges, and to tackle several dimensions or rural vulnerability. They are supposed to enhance sustainability by reducing the need to commute and car-dependence, by bringing both workplaces and services closer from home. They are also mobilised to tackle the issue of the digital gap between centres and peripheries, providing digital infrastructures and hardware. Finally, they are supposed to reduce territorial inequalities by strenghtening rural entrepreneurship, safeguarding local jobs, facilitating professional retraining and attract new residents by providing an easier access to telework. Conducted between 2018 and 2020 in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, our study provides some elements to evaluate the effects of those places on territorial vulnerability and marginality. Based on the study of 17 coworking spaces situated in rural areas, their funders’ trajectories and their users’ profiles, we discuss the motives and the expected returns of those places, and their actual potentialities and limits. We first present the definitions of coworking spaces and third-places, the origin of their recent spread in the rural areas and the main features of their geographical locations. Then, we present the rationales behind the creation and attendance to those places, by analysing funders and users’ trajectories and motives. We then present the potentialities and limits of third-places on territorial vulnerability. In the discussion, we interrogate the notion of marginality at the light of those places, that can be defined essentially as spatial and social networks. Indeed, our study enlights the diversity of lifestyles in the rural areas. Coworkers display particular spatial anchorages, with local resources being valued, though combined with forms of plural and multilocalized belongings. Their relationship with the margin is chosen, controlled and reversible, sometimes even yearned for. Their connectedness is not so much defined by where they live rather than by who they know, embodying the predominantly social dimension of marginality.

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The surge in homeworking and new key issues for regional studies

Cited by 3 publications

References 3 publications

Worker Productivity During Covid-19 and Adaptation to Working from Home

Worker Productivity During Covid-19 and Adaptation to Working from Home

Migration Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of New England Showing Movements down the Urban Hierarchy and Ensuing Impacts on Real Estate Markets

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