Home office para além das fronteiras: mobilidades de trabalhadores brasileiros no mercado internacional

Abstract

Until the emergence of technologies that allow remote work, workers only sought work in close geographic locations, which made their presence possible.With the advancement of digital tools and globalization, it is possible to take on jobs via home-office for local companies or even for those on the side of the world, as technology crosses borders. In this sense, the aim of this study is to investigate the mobilities related to home-office work by Brazilians who work in the international market. A qualitative and exploratory research was carried out with interviews with 14 workers from different careers. The results show that (i) the ways of entering the home-office in the international market occurred due to previous geographic mobilities, such as resicence, work and tourism abroad, as well as the use of technological tools such as Google, digital platforms, LinkedIn, and Whatapp that provide techonological mobility; (ii) those interviewed are skilled workers who tend to seek lifestyle and work (digital nomad) away from traditional jobs and who, througl tecnological mobility, provide more freedom for geographic mobility (even if within the same country); and (iii) the accentuated flexibiliuzation of work, combined with internacional digital mobility, evicences a work modality configured as a transnational home-office.