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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2025

Julia López López
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)

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Index

2011 smart work guideline, 137
2030 Agenda, 3, 2628, 33, 36
access to information, 68, 109
accumulation of capital, 104
Administrative Commission for the Coordination of Social Security Systems (EU), 61, 120, 201
agile work, 99100, 107108, 111114
AI, 810, 162164
AI Act, 9, 162, 175
AI driven tools of worker control, 5, 59
AI law, 166168
AI regulation, 168, 174179
AI tools, 8, 171, 179
AI-driven systems, 155
Alarcón, M. R., 188
algorithmic information rights, 168
algorithmic law, 173, 179
algorithmic management, 5, 9, 31, 59, 67, 70, 171, 207
algorithmic management systems, 163
algorithmic system, 99100, 163
alienation, 110, 135
antidiscrimination law, 48
appeal courts, 124
applicable law
determination of, 11, 129131, 201203
in cross-border situations, 116120, 130
applicable law shopping, 124
Artificial Intelligence. See AI
assessment of interests, 154
associations
labour, 69
workplace, 45, 47
Australia, 82
Austria, 17, 19, 156, 165
authority, 178
administrative, 103, 137
employer’s direct, 150
hierarchical, 104
managerial, 150
principle of, 104, 110
public, 141
authority transfer, 87, 91
automated decisions, 166, 171, 176
autonomy, 23
and trust, 99, 108
collective, 6566, 7172, 76, 139, 145
flexibility and, 29, 102, 113, 189
of movement, 32
of workers organisations, 69
autonomy paradox, 190
balancing of interests, 159
Barbulescu, 152
Belgium, 17, 20
beneficial ownership, 126127
Better Life Index, 93
biometric categorization system, 177
biometric recognition, 207
Bismarck model (for social security), 142
BPR (Business process reengineering), 8485
bridging ties, 4748, 52
burden of proof, 140143
business practices, 10, 185187, 192
Canada, 118, 122, 125, 186
capabilities approach, 113, 136138
capitalist neofeudalism, 65
CFREU, 2021, 6972, 155160
Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. See CFREU
child labour, 32, 35
childcare, 84, 87, 92, 134, 142, 190, 192
China, 93
choice of law, 121, 123, 129130
Chung, Heejung, 192
civil society, 33, 4548
CJEU, 121123, 127128, 156159, 193, 201204
Heiko Koelzsch and État du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, Case C-29/10, 201
Jan Voogsgeerd v Navimer SA, Case C-384/10, 201
collective action, 46, 70
problem, 53
tactics, 5, 60, 72
unconventional modes of, 73
collective agreements, 36, 72, 136138, 145, 157159, 179, 213
at company level, 106
at the European Union level, 17
for the financial sector, 22
Italian, 102
national, 21
of the Benetton Group, 102
universally applicable, 119
collective autonomy, 6566, 7172, 76, 139, 145
collective bargaining
multinational, 145
transnational, 70, 186
collective dismissal, 18
collective institutions, 53, 55
collective labour law, 60, 66, 72, 156, 159
collective labour rights, 60, 6568, 76
collective organisation, 32, 69, 73, 75
and action, 5
EU transnational, 71
collective participation, 69
collective power, 49, 54
collective representation, 50, 155, 157
collective voice, 54
command-and-control model, 99, 110
command-and-control paradigm, 109
communal values, 66
communication, 133, 144
and collaboration technology, 150
and cooperation, 104
and coordination between workers, 169
and interaction between coworkers, 64
between digital workers, 70, 72
digital networks of, 75
health consultation system and, 88
means of, 125
of teleworkers, 63
online, 5, 60, 86
communication channels, 68
communication devices, 137138, 141
communication mechanism, 172
communication right, 69
communication technologies, 136, 149, See also ICT
communication tools, 165, 171
Community Charter (CC), 69
compliance
by unions and labour administrations, 179
from firms with regulations governing working time, 187
with a rigidly predetermined working time, 113
with applicable regulations, 177
with labour legislation, 169
with labour regulations, 173
with labour rights, 32
with occupational health and safety regulations, 208
with occupational risk prevention measures, 172
with sustainability, 33
with the labour contract, 150, 154
with the relevant regulations, 175
with the rest of a worker’s rights, 194
with the right to digital disconnection, 172
worker’s, 211
communication
unmediated and unmonitored, 67
conciliation, 113, 194, See also reconciliation
apply for, 156
objective of, 113
workplace, 10, 192
conciliation between life and work, 2, 21, 108
conciliation measures, 112
conditions
decent, 102
health, 92, 208
labour, 3, 37, 118
living, 9, 32
constitutional court, 143, 167, 210
consultation rights, 6769, 76, 177
contact hypothesis, 47
contract of employment, 99, 110, 117, 120, 122123, 130
contractual distancing, 99, 118
contractual rights, 142
cooperation, 4
intergroup, 48
interpersonal, 47, 49
co-responsibility, 1011, 185, 196
corporate social responsibility (CSR), 15, 19, 21, 26
Countouris, Nicola, 98, 100, 117118, 124, 140, 144
Court of Justice of the European Union. See CJEU
courts of the location of the employer, 124, 127
courts of the Member States of the EU, 120
COVID-19 pandemic, 46, 19, 28, 31, 3435, 44, 6163, 66, 8184, 8990, 9294, 98, 102, 124, 148, 162, 183
co-worker interactions, 4, 45, 54
cross-border crowdworkers, 120
cross-border remote work, 67, 118119, 122, 124125, 129131, 170
cross-cutting social ties, 45
cyberbullying, 22, 214
data breach, 151
data controller, 151, 153, 176
data protection, 62, 148, 177
data protection law, 153155, 160
European, 151
labour and, 8, 156159
data protection rights, 151
De Stefano, Valerio, 14, 27, 31, 36, 98, 100, 105, 118, 140, 144, 171
decent conditions, 102
dehumanisation, 66
delocalisation, 59, 75, 118, 120, 127, 213
democracy, 23
democracy at work, 15, 53
democratic governance, 47
demutualisation, 117118
depersonalisation, 66
digital communities, 69
digital connection, 61
digital disconnection, 11, 22
digital education, 22
digital hardware, 30, 32
digital law, 165167, 170, 173, 179
digital market, 6566, 70
digital nomadism, 170
digital nomads, 6, 120123, 210
digital platforms, 167171, 179
digital rights, 22, 166
digital spaces, 33
digital sphere, 12, 38, 46
digital surveillance, 8, 31, 148, 153
digital tools, 52, 67, 176, 209
Digital Transformation. See DX
digital violence, 195
digitalization, 78, 35, 39, 98, 183
dignity, 23, 163, 214
dignity and privacy, 21
Directive for the improvement of working conditions on digital work platforms (EU), 168
Directive on part-time work, 19
Directive on reconciliation 2019/1158, 18
Directive on Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions (EU), 175, 193
Directives on equality, 18
disconnection from their colleagues, 62
discretionary work, 8687, 89, 137
domestic work, 16, 164, 190
double shifts, 191
Durkheim, Émile, 46
DX, 8485
EC, 9, 209210
ECHR, 70, 152153, 155156
economic, social and governance (ESG), 37
ECtHR, 69, 154155
education and training, 90
EFAs
2002 Framework Agreement on Telework, 18, 164
2006 Framework Agreement on Telework, 66
2020 Framework Agreement on Digitalisation, 164, 195
2022 Framework Agreement on habitual cross-border telework, 6061, 66
emotion recognition system, 177
employee participation, 157, 159
employment
lifetime, 83
membership-based, 83, 85, 91
status of, 118, 124, 129
employment contract, 99
legislation, 165
or relationship, 149
employment contracts, 5, 8, 83, 135, 144145, 151, 188, 204
at the time of entering into the, 153
conflict rules to be applied to, 200
general frameworks of, 168
law rules concerning, 120
necessary practices fo r the execution of the, 207
or relationship, 19, 60
or work rules, 139
promotion and termination of, 174
signed by the teleworker, 189
to order telework, 9192
traditional, 141, 170
with a cross-border element, 130
employment management, 90
employment practices, 8182
employment regulation system, 15
employment status, 15, 31, 36, 118, 124, 129130, 190
Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council configuration (EPSCO), 166
environmental protection, 84, 101
equal respect, 23
Equal Treatment Framework Directive (2000/78/EC), 95
equality and non-discrimination, 18
equality plan, 195
ESC, 6970
escape clause, 121, 127, 200
Estlund, Cynthia, 119
EU common market, 66
EU Directive on Algorithmic Systems at Work, 163
EU law, 20, 70, 76
EU regulations, 1718
EU Telecom Social Partners’ Guidelines on Remote Work, 195
European Association of Craft, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (UEAPME), 17
European Centre of Enterprises with Public Participation (CEEP), 17, 60
European Commission, 163, 166, 201, See EC
European Committee of Social Rights, 69, 71, 205
European Convention of Human Rights. See ECHR
European Court of Human Rights. See ECtHR
European Data Protection Regulation, 166
European Framework Agreement on Telework, 111, 194, 210
European Parliament, 21, 60, 67, 89, 118, 162, 166, 175, 193, 200, 203, 206
European Parliament’s draft Directive on the right to disconnect (2021), 89
European Regulation on Artificial Intelligence, 166
European Social Charter. See ESC
European Social Dialogue, 173, 193
European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), 15, 17, 60, 194
e-work, 27
exclusivity, 141
exploitation, 99, 119
face-time, 5051
face-to-face interactions, 52, 85
family-work conflicts, 190
fertility rate, 134, 142
Flexible Work Act (Netherlands), 92
flexible working laws, 82
flexicurity model, 2, 18
forced labour, 32, 37
forum of establishment, 126, 129
fragmentation
multifaceted, 64
of working time, 188
organisational, 64
social, 74
spatial, 4, 59, 68
technological, 64
workplace, 5, 60
Framework Agreement on habitual cross-border telework (2022), 6061, 66
Framework Agreement on Telework (2006), 66
Framework Agreement on Telework (EU), 10, 90, 92, 164, 184
France, 17, 20, 91, 102, 119
Labor Code amendment (2016), 89
freedom from work, 101
freedom of action, 107
freedom of association, 3233, 3537, 69
freedom of self-determination, 93
freedom of speech, 3233
freedom of workers to work remotely from other jurisdictions, 130
freely given consent, 153
Fudge, Judy, 31, 186
fundamental rights, 33, 100, 109, 129, 152153, 169, 178, 186, 193
equality and non-discrimination, 18, See also right to equality and non-discrimination
of remote workers, 14
privacy and dignity, 21, 23
to data protection and privacy, 174
GDPR, 9, 176, 207
gender blind, 185
gender duty, 185
gender equality, 10, 17, 20, 28, 51, 184, 186, 194
gender gaps, 192
gender roles, 10, 185, 190
generational gap, 84
geolocation data, 153
geo-tracking, 154
Germany, 17, 91, 93, 102, 156
short time working arrangements system (Kurzarbeit), 124
gig economy, 99
Gizmodo, 73
governance of remote work, 17
Greece, 17, 165
SETEP (Union of Workers in Teleperformance), 73
teleperformance workers, 7375
Hamaguchi, Keiichiro, 83
health and safety, 18
at work, 11, 67, 211, 214
regulations, 88, 208
health conditions, 92, 208
health consultations, 88
hetero-direction, 103
hierarchy, 45, 103105, 108
HLPF, 34
home office, 6263, 124, 155
home working, 35
home-based telework, 84, 183
home-based work, 12, 14, 23, 88, 91, 162, 164, 203
HR management guidelines, 106
HR strategies, 99
human control, 23, 174
human dignity, 156159
human rights, 37, 148, 186
hybrid instruments, 17
hybrid labour, 59
hybrid teleworking, 73, 192
hybrid work, 50, 84
arrangement, 82
digitised, 5, 60, 63
inclusive, 102
models, 90
strategies, 29
hybridization, 3, 5, 12, 23
ICT, 4, 8, 14, 59, 62, 81, 156, 160, 214215
ICT devices and tools, 63
ICT infrastructure, 90
ICT tools, 64, 67, 8485
ICT-mobile work, 184, 194
ILO Guidelines on Just Transitions, 36, 39
ILO Tripartite Declaration, 38
India, 122
industrial accident, 136137, 140143
industrial action, 7274
industrial democracy, 109
industrial relations, 52, 71
industrial relations systems, 52
Industrial Revolution, 49, 105
informal sociability, 47
information
access to, 68, 109
right to, 68
subject specific, 67
Information and Communication Technology. See ICT
information technologies, 148, 155156
in-office work, 30, 82
in-person working, 50, 55
institutional interaction, 6
intelligent cameras, 171172
intergroup conflict, 48
intergroup relations at work, 47
international institutions, 3, 26, 28, 33
International Labour Organization. See ILO
interpersonal bonds, 4, 6364
interstitial sociability, 48
inviolability of the home, 91
isolation, 63, 6668, 74, 90, 172, 191
IT companies, 134
IT industry, 133
IT security, 165
Italy, 17, 19
Inter-confederal Agreement on agile working for artisan businesses and SMEs, 106
law on agile working, 99100, 111114
Japan
2013 Act on Employment Promotion of Persons with Disabilities, 95
Child Care and Family Care Leave Act, 92, 95
deaths from overwork (Karoshi), 88
Industrial Safety and Health Act, 8788
Labor Standards Act, 86, 92
labor unions, 93
Lifetime Employment, 83
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), 84
Telework Promotion Council, 82
traditional employment system, 5, 82
job precariousness, 99
job satisfaction, 49, 108, 135
job security, 74, 83, 108
Korea
Comprehensive Manual on Work at home, 138
KAKAO (Company), 133
labor unions, 143
LSA, 136139
MOEL (Ministry of Employment and Labor), 134138, 142
Occupational Safety and Health Act, 138, 142
traditional labour law, 8, 134
Labor Standards Act (Japan), 86, 92
Labor Standards Act (Korea). See LSA (Korea)
labor unions. See also trade unions
Japan, 93
Korea, 143
labour and employment law, 4, 45, 140
labour associations, 69
labour conditions, 3, 37, 118
labour consciousness, 64
labour gap, 10, 185, 187
labour inspectorate, 31, 169
labour law
traditional, 54, 82, 9394, 140
traditional (Korea), 8, 134
labour law institutions, 46, 12, 18, 131, 171
labour law protections, 23, 35
labour rights
application of, 193
basic, 129
erosion of, 167
fundamental, 194
legislative, 109
principles of, 15
labour standards, 7, 9, 23, 37, 39, 137, 174
Latvia, 165
legitimate interests, 152154, 157159
lifetime employment, 83
litigation, 120, 125
López, Julia, 14, 21, 174, 176, 185, 192, 214
loyalty, 46, 82, 102, 104, 107
LPRL (Spanish Labour Risk Prevention Law), 212
Luxembourg, 18, 20, 201
managerial compulsion, 47
managerial prerogatives, 98, 100, 110
mandatory provisions, 121, 127128, 130131
membership-based employment, 83, 85, 91
mental health, 88, 191, 206
misclassification, 99, 141
mobbing, 214
mobile office, 6263
mobile work, 14, 62, 81, 102
monitoring measures, 8, 150
monitoring of computer equipment, 167
monitoring software, 63, 150
monitoring systems, 100, 112, 158, 172
monitoring technologies, 53
monitoring tools, 150
motherhood, 11, 192
multi-jobs, 140
multi-location contracts, 201
multinational corporate governance, 38
mutual aid, 6466
neo-republicanism, 109
Netherlands, 82, 92, 122
Flexible Work Act, 92
new technologies, 67, 100, 105, 117123, 125, 155, 183, 193
and hybrid ways of working, 188
development of, 183
on privacy and dignity, 8
use of, 214
non-face-to-face industries, 136
normative values, 70
North-Eastern Asia, 122
occupational hazard, 175
occupational risk, 205, 212
occupational risk prevention, 11, 172, 200, 207
OECD, 38, 93, 134
office
mobile, 6263
virtual, 62, 64
office work, 84, 92
offshoring, 27
offshoring countries, 119
offshoring work, 118
off-site work, 8687, 89, 149
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. See OECD
organization model
non-hierarchical, 105
organizational model, 98
outsourcing, 7, 27, 74, 99, 140
participation
collective, 69
employee, 157, 159
worker, 20, 103104
participation rights, 22, 177
Part-Time Agreement (1997), 18
part-time work, 15, 18, 92, 95, 187
performance evaluation, 138, 175, 177
performance evaluation techniques, 207
performance evaluation tools, 149
personal data
access to, 151
protection of, 157, 159
personal rights, 91, 152153, 155156, 159
personal trust, 100, 105, 107
platform work, 27, 3334, 36, 59, 6465, 6768, 99, 170171
Platform Work Directive. See PWD
porosity, 185
Portugal, 19, 165
power imbalance, 6667, 76
presumed working hour system, 8687
principle of inclusive solidarity, 21
principles of participation and proportionality, 16
principles of voluntariness
and non-discrimination, 11, 186, 194
and reversibility, 1820, 165
privacy and dignity, 23
privacy concerns, 141, 172
privacy protection, 87
private international law, 144145
private law, 71
international (Korea), 144
production
cycle, 99
means of, 103104, 108, 116117, 155
process(es), 73, 104, 114, 140, 170
responsible consumption and, 28
psychosocial risks, 1112, 172, 179, 190, 205, 207, 215
public goods, 4, 45, 53
public order, 139141
public spaces, 30, 39
Putnam, Robert, 4547
PWD, 6769, 72, 118, 130
Quebec, 125126
reasonable accommodation, 82, 9294
reciprocity, 45, 48
reconciliation, 192
reconciliation measures, 186
reconciliation of life and working time, 111, 114
reconciliation of work and family life, 10, 22, 184185
reconciliation rights, 189
redistribution, 7, 136, 145, 188
regulation of remote work, 23, 1718, 24, 39, 164
regulatory tools typical of labour law, 101
remotization of work, 98
responsible business conduct (RBC), 37
right of participation, 21
right to collective bargaining, 32, 35, 72, 155, 159
right to data protection and privacy, 174
right to digital disconnection, 3, 172, 188189, 193, 206
right to disconnect, 89, 99, 166, 206
right to equality, 21
right to equality and non-discrimination, 9, 15, 2123, 193
right to information, 68
right to inviolability of the home, 209
right to order telework, 90
right to organise, 37, 69
right to privacy, 21, 209
right to private communication between workers, 68
right to refuse home-based work, 91
right to request flexible working arrangements, 92, 95
right to request telework, 90, 92, 95
right to respect for private life, 91, 152153
right to strike, 32, 72
rights
algorithmic information, 168
at work, 35
communication, 69
consultation, 6769, 76, 177
contractual, 142
data protection, 151
digital, 22, 166
information, 18, 68
participation, 22, 177
personal, 91, 152153, 155156, 159
reconciliation, 189
social, 18, 20, 99
transnational association, 69
working time, 193
rights to collective organisation and action, 60
risk mitigation, 174175
risk of isolation, 62
Rogers, Brishen, 53
Romania, 152, 165
Rome I Regulation, 200
Article 8 of the, 120124
Article 9 of the, 127128
Rubery, Jill, 187
safety and health education, 88
satellite office work, 81
satellite office-based telework, 84
satellite offices, 84, 134
SDGs, 2629, 3238, 75, 185
second-generation laws, 164165, 179
Sectoral Agreement on Digitalisation (EU), 173
self-determination, 141
self-employed, 61, 86, 123124, 144
self-employed telework, 86
self-employment, 86, 99, 104, 111, 123, 170
sense of community with co-workers, 49
sexual harassment, 214
Slovakia, 165
sociability, 4, 44
social capital, 45, 49
social dialogue, 21, 23, 3536, 7072, 102, 106
social distancing, 98, 135
social dumping, 7, 118119, 127129, 202
social integration, 46, 54
social justice, 23, 37
social market economy, 70
social partners, 60, 63, 7172, 98, 106107, 149, 159, 166
social protection, 32, 35, 117, 128, 168
social rights, 18, 20, 99
social security protection, 17, 34, 208
social security system, 120, 201
coordination of, 60
German, 124
social ties, 4546, 4849
social well-being, 31
solidaristic ties, 5455
solidarity, 4, 4647
between workers, 119
mechanisms of, 63
social, 48, 66
substantive and formal, 64
values of, 104
worker, 5255
sources of regulation, 15, 17, 23
Spain, 17, 19, 165, 173, 201
Labour and Social Security Inspectorate (ITSS), 205
LPRL (Spanish Labour Risk Prevention Law), 212
Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, on the Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights, 21
spillover, 1315, 52, 188
spillover benefits, 4, 45, 48
stakeholders, 61, 101, 140, 194
state regulatory compulsion, 48
strike, 69
strike action, 73
structural imbalance, 153, 156, 160
subordinate work, 9899
subordination, 6, 12, 45, 86, 100, 103, 105111, 118
subsidiarity principle, 13, 1617, 19
supreme court, 142, 204
sustainable cities, 28, 32
sustainable democratic society, 45
Sustainable Development Goals. See SDGs
Taylor-Fordism, 106
teamwork-oriented employment practices, 83
technological tools, 4, 59, 61, 111, 175
technologies
remote work, 50, 52
telematic, 98
technostress, 173, 179, 205
telecommuting, 134136, 139, 143, 199
telematic technologies, 98
telemigration, 118
teleperformance, 62, 7375
telework
home-based, 84, 183
satellite office-based, 84
territoriality principle, 124
TEU, 70
TFEU, 6972, 166
ties
among wo-workers, 46
bridging, 4748, 52
social, 4546, 4849
solidaristic, 5455
workplace, 4, 4648, 50, 5455
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 4546
Togo, 122
trade unions, 810, 32, 3637, 6869, 73, 101, 129, 133, 158, 179
transparency, 67, 158, 166, 171, 174, 176177, 180
travel time, 84
Treaty on European Union. See TEU
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. See TFEU
tripartism, 35
UK, 69, 82, 92, 119, 122
UN, 3, 2627, 33
UN Global Compact, 38
UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, 38
UN High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. See HLPF
UN Secretary-General, 34
Union of Industrial and Employers’ Confederations of Europe (UNICE), 17
unionization, 5254, See also trade unions
United Kingdom. See UK
United Nations. See UN
United States. See US
universal protection, 82, 9496
US, 5053, 73, 84, 95, 118, 125
GMG Union, 73
voluntary associations, 4548
voluntary national review (VNR), 34
voluntary status, 18, 20
vulnerability, 3, 12, 18, 23, 120, 131
well-being, 82, 84, 93, 206
of workers, 81, 96, 172
worker satisfaction and, 112
WHO, 27, 32, 212
work
discretionary, 8687, 89, 137
from home, 4, 44, 51, 54, 81, 87, 92, 94, 110, 136, 149, 184, 189, 191, 195
ICT-mobile, 184, 194
mobile, 14, 62, 81, 102
offshoring, 118
off-site, 8687, 89, 149
part-time, 15, 18, 92, 95, 187, 192
platform, 27, 3334, 36, 59, 6465, 6768, 99, 170171
social dimension of, 4, 4445, 52
subordinate, 9899
work commodification, 66, 76
work digitization, 45
work rules, 136, 138
work styles, 8687, 94
compatible with the telework environment, 90
flexible, 85
teamwork-oriented, 81
worker mobilisation, 7273
worker representatives, 39, 63, 68, 129
workers
agile, 107, See also agile work
crowd, 6
in-demand, 51
in-office, 52
low-wage, 51
platform, 6, 68, 72, 118, 120, 124, 167168
working conditions, 8, 46, 51, 5455, 118, 137138, 141, 175, 193, 202, 210
applicable legislation and the rest of, 199
appropriate, 160
changes affecting, 68
decision-making power about the, 144
fair, 155
flexibility of, 186
hours and rest periods, 206
impact of telework on, 177
labour sectors with poorly regulated, 190
minimum, 93, 139
of remote workers, 10
potential adverse effects on, 67
unilateral determination of, 171
unsatisfactory, 103
working hours and, 74
working poverty, 35
working time, 10, 22, 112, 118, 135, 194
and rest time, 11, 203204
decent, 186187
employers’ power to extend, 23
unregulated, 29
Working Time Directive 2003/88/EC, 193
working time management, 87
working time regulation, 87, 141, 208
working time rights, 193
work-life balance, 4, 6, 44, 51, 5455, 87, 112, 116, 135, 208
Work-Life Balance Directive 2019/1158, 149, 189, 193
workplace
in-person, 52
office, 195
traditional, 82
virtual, 61, 68, 70, 171
workplace associations, 45, 47
workplace conciliation, 10, 192
workplace connectedness, 49, 5253
workplace technology, 4, 45, 5253, 55
work-related spaces, 32
work-related stress, 32
works council, 156158
World Health Organization. See WHO

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You get concise descriptions (for images, charts, or media clips), ensuring you do not miss crucial information when visual or audio elements are not accessible.
Full alternative textual descriptions
You get more than just short alt text: you have comprehensive text equivalents, transcripts, captions, or audio descriptions for substantial non‐text content, which is especially helpful for complex visuals or multimedia.
Visualised data also available as non-graphical data
You can access graphs or charts in a text or tabular format, so you are not excluded if you cannot process visual displays.

Visual Accessibility

Use of high contrast between text and background colour
You benefit from high‐contrast text, which improves legibility if you have low vision or if you are reading in less‐than‐ideal lighting conditions.

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  • Edited by Julia López López, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)
  • Book: Remote Work and Labor Institutions
  • Online publication: 12 December 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009597029.014
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  • Edited by Julia López López, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)
  • Book: Remote Work and Labor Institutions
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  • Edited by Julia López López, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)
  • Book: Remote Work and Labor Institutions
  • Online publication: 12 December 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009597029.014
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