Unlocking the potential for working closer to home
Project Summary
This project examines the barriers and opportunities for increasing the number of people able to work closer to their home in both regional and metropolitan Western Australia. The role of local neighbourhood-based ‘shared working spaces’ to support telecommuting and home-working is a particular focus. A review of international literature enables development of a comprehensive model of the social, economic and cultural dimensions of shared working spaces, telecommuting and home-working. Census analysis provides detailed spatial patterns of home-working and commuting in WA. Case studies examine the potential contribution of shared working spaces for local neighbourhood vitality and urban self-containment in order to inform policy settings required to support these initiatives.
Project Outputs
The Rise of Shared Work Spaces: A Disruption to Urban Planning Policy?
New models of shared work spaces have the potential to disrupt planning for traditional employment spaces. Drawing on a pilot study of Greater Perth and regional Western Australia, relevant planning policies and interviews with a sample of managers and users... Read article
Unlocking the potential for working closer to home
Unlocking the Potential for Working Closer to Home, examines the barriers to, and opportunities for, increasing the number of people able to work closer to their home in both metropolitan Perth and regional Western Australia. It is known that working... Read article
Co-working spaces are part of the new economy, so town planners better get with the times
Cities are seeing a growing number of shared working, or co-working, spaces. They include spaces where individuals and businesses can flexibly rent desks or rooms, or do shared work in “third spaces” such as libraries and cafes. Co-working spaces offer... Read article
The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre team acknowledges the Wadjuk Nyungar people as the traditional owners of the land on which the Centre is situated.