Conditions of Self-Employed Single Mother and Disabled Home Teleworkers

: From an Interview Survey of Self-Employed Home Teleworkers

Abstract

The Abe administration recently announced its “Action Plan for the Realization of Work Style Reform”. The Action Plan states that promoting teleworking, side jobs, and moonlighting will help to bring about a society in which people can flexibly adjust their work schedules to match their life stages, including periods of childbirth, childcare, and nursing care. Recently, crowdsourcing companies have been listed on “TSE Mothers” and home telework is now considered to be a flexible new way of working within the rubric “Era of 100-year Lives”.In this report, based on the results of an interview survey with single mothers and disabled people who work at home, I consider whether home telework offers the flexibility required to cope with life stages such as childbirth, childcare and nursing care. The interview survey was conducted with disabled persons registered in home telework support organizations. I also intend to conduct an interview survey with single mothers who have taken the telework training program. By doing this, I will present the true conditions of disabled persons and single mothers conducting telework in their homes.