Working From Home: From Invisibility to Decent Work

With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, large portions of the world’s workforce shifted to homeworking, joining hundreds of millions of other workers who had already been working from home for decades. Given the continued struggle to improve the rights and working conditions of those who work at home and the renewed interest in working from home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, this report seeks to improve understanding of home work and to advance guidance on policies that can pave the way to decent work for homeworkers both old and new.