Home-working - the new peasantry or a regenerative impetus for cities?

摘要

In the UK, the number of people who are living and working from home, whether on a full-time or part-time, employed or self-employed basis, has risen dramatically. These include not just creative types - the so-called 'bedroom boys' of digital visualisation, or writers based in garden sheds - but also employees of large corporations and people on benefits struggling to make ends meet by working for cash at home.