Abstract

This article analyzes the regulation of telework in Chilean legislation, as a new labor paradigm. Introduced as a mechanism intended to prevent the impact of unemployment, as a consequence of Covid-19, it seeks to determine, based on the advantages and difficulties of the figure, the critical aspects involved in the delimitation of the employer’s safety duty, in particular in three areas: firstly, the supervision and verification of compliance with the control and care measures provided by the employer, since teleworking is carried out at the worker’s own home. Second, the concept of work accident, and the difficulties in distinguishing it from the domestic accident; and, thirdly, the applicability or not, in the case of teleworking, of accidents in itinere.