Dutch Parliament Approves Legislation to Make Work from Home a Legal Right (opens in new tab)

This will only work if there are legal ways to prevent mangers from discriminating against work from homers. For example, people who work from home could be first of the list for layoffs. The work from home people are just names on a screen not socializing during meetings and in the hallway. A person who is perceived to be a "team player" is probably going to get much more out of their company than those who aren't. So while they may have the right to work from home, the deck will be stacked against them.

It will be interesting to see what effect this will have on house prices. I guess closeness to cities or to highway exit points will become less relevant for those with jobs that can be done at home.

In general, those will be relatively higher paid jobs, so any effect likely will be on higher-priced houses.

The legislation was approved by the lower house of the bicameral parliament of the Netherlands on Tuesday. It still needs a nod from the Dutch senate before its final adoption.