Future of work
A curated resource of recent research on trends shaping Canada's labour market.
Work-from-home has been hailed as a short-term solution to stop the spread of COVID-19. However, acting as if an employee’s home is a cost-less resource, free for appropriation in an emergency, ignores how the home functions as a site of gendered relations of care and labour. The uneven burden of dealing with this pandemic has been downplayed, with employers tending to depict themselves as flexible rather than as demanding the use of this once-personal space. The authors argue that home has become a backbone of economic recovery and new policies should reflect that. Building back better would require programs for rapid, small-scale investments to adapt dwellings, neighbourhoods, local retail centres and localities to these new, more intensive demands on them.