Dr Frances Holliss on why building a society that offers homeworking is important, especially for poor people and the young
John Harris’s dystopian view (Homeworking sounds good – until your job takes over your life, 7 March) ignores important research. For decades we have known that people like working from home because it increases the control they have over their lives. Being able to decide when and how to work – including taking time out to watch a football match or greet children returning from school – improves everyone’s life, no matter their class or profession.
Covid has exposed, not created, stark spatial and social inequalities in our society. In May last year, when most middle-class people were working full-time from home, safely out of the way of the virus, only one in five working class people were – and the infection and death rates reflect this.
