The thesis analyses remote working, starting with employment and employment contract as a fundamental framework that enabled the development of remote work. Hereafter the thesis elaborates the origins of remote work, various terms, deffinitions and conceptualizations that can be comprised under the idea of remote work, as well as the international and European regulatory framework. Next, the regulation of remote work in Croatia, compared with its counterpart in the USA, followed by Croatian and European case laws. In the later part, pros and cons of remote work are being analyzed, alongside with the success as well as a number of challenges that it has come acros during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, what are the social impacts of remote work and what are the possibilites that modern technologies render in terms of future regulation, optimisation and enhancement of remote work.