Foundations for Home-Based Work: A Comparative Perspective is a hybrid conference funded by the Cultural Research Centre, under Department of Communications and New Media and jointly held with the Asia Research Institute at NUS, as a culminative part of a research project entitled Foundations for Home-Based Work: A Singapore Study (NUS-IRB-2021-799; Project No. A-0008463-01-00), funded by MOE SSRTG, under Principal Investigator Associate Professor Lilian Chee, and Co-Investigators Professor Jane M. Jacobs, Professor Audrey Yue, and Associate Professor Natalie Pang.
When
29-30 November 2023, 9 AM - 6 PM SGT
Where
Hybrid (Online via Zoom & Seminar Room AS8 04-04)
Asia Research Institute
10 Kent Ridge Cres,
National University of Singapore,
Singapore (119260)
Abstract
The global pandemic restructured the locations and logic of paid work in profound ways, requiring many to work from home and setting society on a pathway that is transforming conventional boundaries between work and home. Be it the work-from-home office worker, the digital nomad or the precariously engaged gig worker, each one uses the home and neighbourhood in novel ways. This conference reflects on the social and infrastructural implications of this restructuring from a comparative perspective.
How are domestic and neighbourhood infrastructures being drawn into this new era of work, and are current designs and facilities sufficient? How are the contours of work from home different in different contexts, and why? Which sectors and which workers sustain home-based work and why? What policy responses are there to support or discourage it? What are the implications on digital equity? What are the infrastructural, design and household requirements of home-based work? Who carries that burden, and how does it manifest across lines of class? Further, how might these current and emergent trends in home-based work resonate with longer-held conventions of home-based paid work and the household innovations that accommodated that work?
Organizing Committee
Dr. Lilian Chee (Principal Investigator), Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore
Dr. Jane M. Jacobs, Professor, Division of Social Sciences, Yale-NUS College
Dr. Natalie Pang, Associate Professor, Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore
Dr. Audrey Yue, Professor and Head of Department, Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore
Ruella Che, Research Assistant, National University of Singapore
Rachel Sim, Research Assistant, National University of Singapore
Liyana Doneva, Research Assistant, National University of Singapore