Home-based Working Committee

LordsSelectest. 30 Jan 2025Email ↗● Actively Monitored
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Sessions analysed14
Commitments6
Positions61
Recommendations40

Latest Signals

10 Mar 2025Working from home is reshaping city centres and office demandUniversity of SheffieldConcern
“[Speaker: Professor Jesse Matheson] The first is working from home, because it is a large-scale shift affecting a lot of the working population, changes the working-hour population density during the day. Dense city centres with lots of office space have seen a reduction in the number of people who are there during daytime hours, whereas residential areas have seen an increase. This is going to spill over into other parts of the economy, where workers cannot work from home; think about buying coffees or going to restaurants: all those local services are going to be affected.”
10 Mar 2025The pandemic, not employers alone, catalysed the shiftUniversity of SheffieldPosition
10 Mar 2025Right to disconnect is hard to legislate cleanlyCardiff UniversityPosition
10 Mar 2025Front-line and small employers face a two-tier workforce problemTimewiseConcern
10 Mar 2025Managers need training to lead hybrid teamsTimewiseConcern
10 Mar 2025Fully remote work can create isolation and detachmentUniversity of BirminghamConcern
10 Mar 2025Hybrid working is generally the preferred modelUniversity of SheffieldPosition
10 Mar 2025Large organisations need stronger coordination and line managementUniversity of BirminghamConcern

Recent Sessions

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14 Jul 2025Home working, flexible work and Civil Service policy
1 commit3 pos3 concern2 rec1 leg
30 Jun 2025Home-based working: AI, productivity and legal risk
6 pos8 concern3 rec2 leg
23 Jun 2025Home working: broadband, cyber risk and hybrid policy
3 pos5 concern5 rec1 leg
16 Jun 2025Home-based working: NHS and Zoom perspectives
4 pos4 concern4 rec
09 Jun 2025Home-based Working: hybrid, retention and regulation
2 commit3 pos4 concern3 rec1 leg
02 Jun 2025Home-based working: health, rights and high streets
2 commit2 pos2 concern5 rec1 disag

Recent Commitments

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Recent Recommendations

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Frequent Witnesses

Stanford University1× · 12 insights
Department for Business and Trade1× · 8 insights
Zoom1× · 7 insights
Oxford Internet Institute1× · 6 insights
Durham University1× · 6 insights
London School of Economics1× · 5 insights

About this committee

Scrutinising issues affecting home-based workers across employment law, labour standards, and workplace conditions, the Home-based Working Committee operates in the House of Lords as a select committee with power to take oral evidence. The committee examines policy and legislative developments relevant to those working from home or other non-traditional settings, drawing on testimony from government officials, employers, workers' representatives, and subject matter experts. Recent inquiries have focused on the Employment Rights Bill, where the committee explored how proposed changes interact with home-based work arrangements and worker protections. In June 2025, the committee examined artificial intelligence's expanding role in remote work management, hearing from academics Frey and Zamani alongside representatives from ACAS on how algorithmic monitoring affects employment rights and workplace relations. The committee's work reflects growing parliamentary concern with ensuring that legislative and technological developments do not erode protections for those working outside traditional office environments.