The WinWin4WorkLife project explores how remote work is changing the way we live and work — and how Europe can harness this shift. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, working from home or outside the traditional office has become a normal part of life for many. While remote work offers flexibility and freedom, it also raises important questions: How does it affect our health, productivity, family life, and cities? Who benefits, and who might be left behind?
WinWin4WorkLife responds to these questions by using an interdisciplinary approach and turn remote work into a ‘win-win’— for employees and employers, for urban and rural areas — while supporting broader goals like economic strength, well-being, equality, and sustainability.
Key project activities include:
- Creating a shared definition of remote work across countries, sectors, and disciplines.
- Collecting new data on remote work practices via surveys, time-use diaries, and interviews in five different European regions
- Analyzing how employers support remote work and how this affects productivity, employee health, and company performance.
- Exploring how employees' uptake of remote work influences their daily lives, personal health, and digital skills.
- Predicting how remote work changes residential patterns, travel, and urban/rural development.
- Paying close attention to fairness — who gains, who faces barriers, by gender, income, job type, and region.
- Working with +100 stakeholders (employers, unions, governments, civil society) to co-create practical and future-oriented policies.
Expected outcomes include 4 open datasets, +18 peer-reviewed scientific publications, 2 digital dashboards for employees and employers, and a multilingual policy roadmap — culminating in a European “Manifesto for Healthy, Inclusive and Sustainable Remote Work.” By doing so, WinWin4WorkLife aims to position the EU as a world leader in remote work policy leaving nobody and no place behind.
