Digital and Remote Work : Pushing EU Labour Law Beyond Its Limits

Remote work, broadly comprehended as situations in which work is performed outside the employer’s premises, is placed in this chapter in the context of the incremental digitalisation and gigification of the labour market. The premise of this reflection is that digital infrastructure can be counted as a key enabler of remote work, encompassing everything from task management apps and productivity tracking software to the more extreme cases of platform work. Thus conceived, remote work is discussed here as a disruptor to the reach and efficacy of existing labour law systems. This chapter provides an overarching mapping of the challenges to existing labour norms and suggests possible avenues for their reorientation, even at the cost of reshaping their scope