Abstract

One product of the digital revolution is the digital workplace. Once strictly defined as to its location, working time, protection and insurance, the workplace now poses a challenge of finding the most appropriate way of regulating it when location is not necessarily any more linked to business surroundings, but to digital as well. Overlapping concepts of home, with the utmost protection of privacy, and meant as a place of rest between two working days, and the office, when placed in home surroundings, requires careful scrutiny in national legislation. Additionally pronounced during the Covid-19 pandemic, remote or teleworking has made an impact on labour law throughout the world and in the EU. The paper shall present an overview of the concept of digital workplace, including home office, with a view to recent legislative changes in Austria and its challenges. Potential risks and concerns shall be addressed as well.

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