Remote Work, Work Measurement and the State of Work Research in Human-Centred Computing

Abstract Over the past few decades, a small but growing group of people have worked remotely from their homes. With arrival coronavirus pandemic, millions found themselves joining this overnight. In position paper, we examine kinds work that ‘went remote’ in response to and consider ways which transition was influenced by (and turn came influence) contemporary trends digital workplace measurement evaluation. We see employers appeared reluctant let certain classes employee remotely. When pandemic forced staff home, compensated turning surveillance tools, even though, as argue, these tools seem unable overcome significant conceptual barriers understanding how are working. also observed that, United Kingdom context, didn’t mean remote for proportion population. assert maximize its impact, ‘future work’ research human-centred computing must be more inclusive representative work, rather than focusing on experiences knowledge workers those involved new forms work.