Remote work has become normalised as an important aspect of people’s lives across different professions, social classes and geographic regions. In the knowledge economy, work is now less tied to specific physical locations and is re-spatialised in new hybrid ways. 

What are the consequences of remote work and always-on-connectivity on people's everyday lives? How do these affect social institutions such as the home, family, household and friendship, and broader processes of social change? 

ReWorkChange will answer these questions by delivering a comparative ethnographic study of the societal consequences of remote work in six countries with an advanced knowledge economy: China, India, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands and Turkey. It will provide ethnographic evidence of everyday practices to generate theories of social institutions and a broader theory of remote work and social change.

Funded by the European Union (ERC, ReWorkChange, 101170859)