Not Working from Home

Project Summary

During the Covid-19 pandemic, public debate and media coverage have often focused on the difficulties of working from home. By contrast, the experience of key workers who continue to work outside the home has been presented as heroic self-sacrifice ‘on the frontline’, with little understanding of the day-to-day challenges and uncertainties involved. #NotWorkingFromHome is an online exhibition of video, audio, image, and text. It provides a creative space for key workers to highlight the difficulties and uncertainties of their everyday life during the pandemic. The online exhibition aims to draw the attention of decision-makers and the wider public to the needs of those who have continued to commute to, and work at, a place other than home. With services from public transport to food preparation reduced to reflect lower demand from office workers, there is a need to make visible the multiple, diverse, and often acute issues key workers have faced as a result. The exhibition reflects them in creative ways and amplifies the work of civil society organisations and other actors seeking to shape the public and policy debate to ensure measures introduced in times of crisis reflect the needs of those working in critical occupations.

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Not Working from Home: Key Workers' Stories