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Kōrero: Occupational structure

Home workers

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Home workers

Working from home has become more feasible and popular thanks to improved information technology. A computer consultant, valuer, artist, geologist, landscape designer and psychotherapist were all members of this social group of self-employed people in Eastbourne, Wellington. Because they worked from home, meeting every fortnight helped them avoid feeling isolated.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1999/2597/15

by Ross Giblin

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Paul Callister rāua ko Robert Didham, Occupational structure – Time and place of work, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/22557/home-workers (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Paul Callister rāua ko Robert Didham, i tāngia i te 14 April 2010.