Tutt3 Casa e Lavoro. Smart Working in Emergenza e Conciliazione.

The issue of reconciliation between the different spheres of work and private life emerged strongly in the context of remote work experienced during the pandemic emergency, especially for workers with children. The article aims to investigate to what extent the flexibility offered by remote work can represent an opportunity and how much it opens up to new or old forms of disadvantages. Based on a survey and semi-structured interviews collected between April 2020 and March 2021, the study highlights how flexibility provided by remote work can be an opportunity to be seized but also a risk to be managed, and that only under certain conditions it can contribute to work-life balance objectives.