@inproceedings{940ac6e2831a4c979529a8dc4627af90,
title = "'Backshoring' home: Developments in home-based teleworking (HbTW) in the European labour market",
abstract = "The challenges to counteract economic downturn in Europe have led to organisations embracing ideas of new ways and forms to work and to rethink job design and delivery. HbTW is an extension of the opportunities to backshore Information Communication Technologies (ICT) enabled service provision in a flexible and cost effective way for companies. We focus on two cases. The Netherlands provides an interesting arena to consider the role of policy making with HbTW considered as part of the 'flexible working' agenda and the potential benefits or otherwise on family and working life for all concerned. We also provide an analysis of the British Labour Force Survey to provide detail of who are Home-based Teleworkers (HbTWers) in the UK and what occupations dominate including investigation of comparative training and pay rates involved. In conclusion we consider the future of the global location of work, suggest a research agenda, discuss whether the 'backshoring' trends including the rise in HbTW will continue and the consequent issues and risks of such a trend.",
keywords = "Backshoring, European labour market, Home-based telework, New forms of work, Off shoring, Outsourcing",
author = "Daiga Kamerāde and Pascale Peters and Helen Richardson and Minna Salminen and Sudi Sharifi",
year = "2013",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781629931388",
series = "7th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation, ECIME 2013",
pages = "261--264",
booktitle = "7th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation, ECIME 2013",
note = "7th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation, ECIME 2013 ; Conference date: 12-09-2013 Through 13-09-2013",
}