CTS Seminar Series
Working from home: Promises, illusions, pathways
with Dr Benjamin Motte-Baumvol
Key Information:
- Date and time
- Tue 18 March 2025
12:00 - 13:00 - Location
- Online Event
- Contact
- Dr Asa Thomas asa.thomas@uwe.ac.uk
- Cost
- Free
- Attendance
- Booking required
About the event
We are pleased to announce our next CTS seminar series and the last in our theme on Labour and Transport.
For an online-only seminar, Dr Benjamin Motte-Baumvol, Senior Researcher at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, will be exploring one of the most significant shifts in the relationship between transport and labour in recent years, with a particular focus on its environmental impacts.
As an introduction to the topic, Benjamin writes:
"Working from home has often been described as a key lever for reducing travel and CO₂ emissions, alleviating urban congestion, and offering greater residential flexibility, especially in large metropolitan areas. It has also been portrayed as a way to reconcile professional and family life - particularly for women - within a largely gendered and neoliberal framework. My research reveals a more nuanced reality: rather than systematically cutting travel distances, working from home frequently increases non-work trips, does not prompt a major shift toward suburban living, and does not meaningfully address inequalities in household task sharing. Yet rejecting working from home outright is not the solution: a detailed analysis of its considerable heterogeneity - by sector, employer strategies, and households’ characteristics—highlights potential levers for steering its outcomes toward a more neutral, or even positive, balance in environmental terms."
Registration
All are welcome to this online seminar.
- Cost: Free
- Attendance: Booking required
This is an online event
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