Telework as a driver of inequalities in the labour market

Telework as a driver of inequalities in the labour market

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The contribution focuses on telework, arguing that its spread is likely to exacerbate the already existing fp9550bk inequalities in the labour market.After outlining the reasons for the so-called teleworkability divide, the Author shows that the cleavage between those who can and those who cannot work remotely is not neutral, but rather a factor that accelerates and sharpen disparities among groups of workers, favouring only some socialstudiesscholar.com of them.Attention will also be paid to the issue of discrimination in teleworking access policies and that of its so-called segregating effect.Finally, some possible remedies to the detrimental consequences of the teleworkability divide are proposed.