Remote-working multiple impacts in the age of disruptions: socio-economic transformations, territorial rethinking, and policy actions (Remaking) - D1.1 – Report on background knowledge to inform the empirical research – Literature Review - Section 4 - Current and potential socio-economic transformations

The widespread adoption of remote working practices has introduced relevant socioeconomic transformations in the organization of work, labour markets and mobility. While RW has been increasing since before the pandemic, the more recent surge has several implications that have been indentified in the literature. These concern, namely, the nature of jobs or the access to remote work in particular occupations. This has a clear impact in terms of labour markets, as individuals consider the possibility of providing remote work in relation to wages, location or firm complementary investments, but also in how organisations manage their workforce in relation to the access and use of remote work. In this regard it is clear that remote work has impacts in different forms of inequalities at work. The mobility changes induced by remote work, both in daily commutes as in territorial displacement, has also important environmental impacts, territorial dynamics and socio-economic impacts at community level that need to be considered by public policies.