The sudden closure of businesses and tight social distancing restrictions on the movement of people in the attempt to slow down the spread of Covid-19 is having unprecedented effects on employment and businesses activity. Employment in non-food personal and domestic services is directly affected since customers are required to stay …
The Centre of Excellence for the Future of Human Communication at the University of Southampton has organised a (virtual) Roundtable Discussion on the radical changes of communication practices we have witnessed since the lockdown and restrictions on mobility, workplace and socialising. Darja Reuschke was invited as an expert on homeworking …
Industrial and occupational changes have been well-studied. These changes of work are embedded in wider changes of economies and societies due to globalisation and rapidly developing communication and information technologies. However, changes in work are not limited to how work is being performed but also where work is being performed. …
Victoria Price presented a new conference paper from her PhD research at the Annual Conference of the Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) in Newcastle, on the 14th of November 2019. The paper, which is co-authored with Darja Reuschke, was presented to the Gender & Enterprise Special Interest Group …
Victoria Price will present a paper titled ‘Investigating the Performance of Women-Owned Home-Based Businesses’, at the annual Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference (ISBE), in Newcastle, UK, on the 14-15 November 2019. The focus of this prestigious and international conference is ‘SPACE – exploring new frontiers and entrepreneurial places’. …
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. …