'Backshoring' home: Developments in home-based teleworking (HbTW) in the European labour market

Daiga Kamerāde; Pascale Peters; Helen Richardson; Minna Salminen; Sudi Sharifi

'Backshoring' home: Developments in home-based teleworking (HbTW) in the European labour market

Daiga Kamerāde (Corresponding Author)
, Pascale Peters
, Helen Richardson
, Minna Salminen
, Sudi Sharifi

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer-review

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	7th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation, ECIME 2013
Pages	261-264
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes
Event	7th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation - Gdansk, Poland Duration: 12 Sept 2013 → 13 Sept 2013 Conference number: 7

Publication series

Name	7th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation, ECIME 2013

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Conference	7th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation
Abbreviated title	ECIME 2013
Country/Territory	Poland
City	Gdansk
Period	12/09/13 → 13/09/13

Keywords*

Backshoring
European labour market
Home-based telework
New forms of work
Off shoring
Outsourcing

Field of Science*

5.4 Sociology
5.2 Economy and Business

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3.1. Articles or chapters in proceedings/scientific books indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database

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Kamerāde, D, Peters, P, Richardson, H, Salminen, M & Sharifi, S 2013, 'Backshoring' home: Developments in home-based teleworking (HbTW) in the European labour market. in 7th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation, ECIME 2013. 7th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation, ECIME 2013, pp. 261-264, 7th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation, Gdansk, Poland, 12/09/13.

'Backshoring' home: Developments in home-based teleworking (HbTW) in the European labour market. / Kamerāde, Daiga (Corresponding Author); Peters, Pascale; Richardson, Helen et al.
7th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation, ECIME 2013. 2013. p. 261-264 (7th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation, ECIME 2013).

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