{"id":355518,"date":"2026-03-20T04:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355518\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T04:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:17:14","slug":"overseas-firms-set-up-in-wicklow-flexible-workspace-as-owner-flags-risks-from-new-remote-working-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355518\/","title":{"rendered":"Overseas firms set up in Wicklow flexible workspace as owner flags risks from new remote-working rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Government is moving to tighten the rules around employees\u2019 rights to request remote working. Stock photo. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/22f92e71-4dfc-47ca-8bb5-1cd79cf04ef6.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Government is moving to tighten the rules around employees\u2019 rights to request remote working. Stock photo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Overseas companies are increasingly using a Wicklow remote\u2011working hub as their Irish base, but its owner has warned that Government plans to tighten the code of practice on remote\u2011work requests risk creating fresh burdens for small employers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Paul Jacob, who runs Wicklow Hub in Newtownmountkennedy, said the current system is working effectively, and that further regulation could risk tipping the balance too far against employers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Government is moving to tighten the rules around employees\u2019 rights to request remote working. Stock photo. Overseas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,10687],"class_list":{"0":"post-355518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tom-galvin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}