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In the context of direct employment at home, this article aims to present the main results of research into mutual learning between individual employers and employees, particularly carers and family employees. Beyond the common representation that asserts that home-based jobs are “simple” and only require “personal qualities”, this research reveals, on the contrary, a real technicality mobilizing complex skills both in the organization of work and the different spaces and times that employees go through over the course of their experience (especially in multi-employer situations) and skills to adapt to a wide variety of situations, leading to constantly making choices and setting priorities.