Field Sites

Over the past few years, remote work has become an increasingly central feature of knowledge workers’ lives across different regions. As work becomes less tied to fixed locations, it is reorganised across homes, urban environments, and digital infrastructures, reshaping the spatial and temporal boundaries between work and everyday life.

ReWorkChange approaches these transformations through a comparative ethnography. The project is grounded in fieldwork across eight countries spanning Europe, Asia, and North America. Each field site is characterised by distinct configurations of remote and hybrid work within expanding knowledge economies.

Each field site examines how remote work is embedded in everyday practices across four domains: the organisation of home and domestic space, family and household relations, wider social relationships, and patterns of mobility and place-making. This shared analytical framework enables comparison across sites while attending to differences in social, cultural, and economic contexts.

Across the field sites, digital infrastructures and processes of digitalisation form a common ground through which transformations in work and everyday life unfold, including the emergence of new forms of labour practices, socialities, and cultural codes. These transformations are simultaneously shaped by local histories, social structures, and material conditions. Together, the field sites provide the empirical basis for examining how remote work contributes to broader processes of social change.

Select a field site below to explore how these dynamics unfold in different contexts.