Time and subordination: reflections on agile work

Abstract

Taking “agile work” as a starting point, the essay analyzes the changes that the spread of new ways of working are bringing about to the notion of working time. The author first analyzes, in the light of domestic and unieuropean law, the efforts made to adapt the notions of working time and rest time to the changed production system, so as to enable their concrete measurement and curb the phenomenon of time porosity. The author also emphasizes the innovative scope of agile work at the systemic level, noting that the absence of time and place constraints can have a major impact on the notion of “subordinate employment”.

Keywords

• working time
• rest period
• agile work
• right to disconnect
• subordination