Office Space: The Political Economy of Remote Work

Abstract

most mainstream accounts. For all the business press talk about the supposed office-turned-home worker revolution, what is new about office work is not at all unique to office work itself. The battles over remote work are important not because new technologies enable any broad-scale transformation of work as such, but rather because they are a symptomatic feature of a labor market more favorable for workers than anything workers have experienced during the past half century or so. Broader political economic trends are far more decisive than remote work technological adoption in changing office work and shaping its future.