Beginning October 2018, the WORKANDHOME team, with the help of outside consultants, embarked upon an ambitious mobile survey. Our objective was to use GPS location tracking to capture participant movement and a real-time survey questionnaire to ask questions about peoples’ activities and feelings throughout the day. Participants were instructed to …
Darja Reuschke was invited by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to speak about “What can SMEs and entrepreneurs do for our cities?” at an international and high-profile event in Trento, Italy, 15-16 April 2019. The event that was organised by the OECD Trento Centre for Local Development …
We worked with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and stakeholders in economic development in business organisations and national and local governments to identify policy interventions that support home-based businesses and derive from these conclusions for policy support. We are pleased that the report is now published in …
We investigated policy responses to the rise of self-employment and micro-scale business activities (businesses with fewer than ten employees) in the South of England. The survey used a standardised questionnaire which was distributed to all departments of local authorities dealing with economic development or planning and regeneration in the South …
Our research into home-based co-working has recently featured in the Guardian newspaper and in a website specialising in resources for home-based entrepreneurs. In an article entitled Would you let strangers work at your kitchen table?, journalist Emma Sheppard investigates the rise of co-working and the emergence of co-working in homes. …
Caboodle is one of a growing number of initiatives responding to a widespread shortage of childcare and workspace options that meet the needs of freelance and home workers. Launched in June 2017, Caboodle offers ‘pop-up’ co-working sessions with an on-site crèche at Windmill Hill City Farm in Bristol, providing the …
The ERC WORKANDHOME project organised together with the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development (LEED) a policy seminar on home-based businesses. The seminar was hosted by the OECD in Paris on the 4th October 2017 as part of the OECD Inclusive Entrepreneurship series. The seminar was designed as …
Currently, the ILS Dortmund is recruiting interview participants in Olfen in Münsterland, Germany. We are looking to speak to self-employed workers and business owners who work mainly from home or use their home as the base for their business in Olfen. If this is you and you are interested in …
Home-based businesses have different needs than ‘traditional’ businesses in commercial premises and this is why policy makers need to know about them. The Local Economic and Employment Development Programme (LEED) in the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development at the OECD, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, is therefore …
In the course of the interviews, Cornelia has spoken to people from a broad range of different professions, including scene builders, therapists, masseuses, IT consultants, artists, office services or founders of digital enterprises. Accordingly, their home-working spaces are very heterogeneous. Some of them work just with a notebook in different …