About
Europe has just witnessed an extraordinary increase in the diffusion of teleworking and/or ICT-based mobile work (smart-working) due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The IRsmart project investigates three main issues that are very much diverse across European countries and play a central role for the adoption of smart-working practices in the respect of workers’ rights:
- the regulatory framework,
- the working conditions,
- the organization of places, i.e. regions and cities.
This project aims to improve the expertise and knowledge of industrial relations, with an extension focused on the tripartite social dialogue (social partners and public authorities), through a comprehensive research, grounded on quantitative and qualitative data analysis, on the relations between smart-working and smart cities across a set of heterogeneous countries, with local focuses on regions and cities.