From ‘home work’ to ‘home office work’?

Homberg, Michael; Lükemann, Laura; Abendroth, Anja‐Kristin

doi:10.13169/workorgalaboglob.17.1.0074

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“…The term "home office" carries diverse meanings, reflecting varied perspectives influenced by technological advancements, cultural norms, and individual preferences (Kelly 2020;Homberg et al 2023;Antczak and Horzela 2021;Grozdics et al 2023). In essence, the term is dynamic, embracing a spectrum of meanings shaped by contemporary work trends and individual choices.…”

Section: Recent Research and Publications On The Home Office Phenomenonmentioning

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“…Home office encompasses numerous definitions, with synonyms such as digital work, distributed work, e-working, flexible work, homeworking, hybrid work, mobile work, off-site work, remote work, telecommuting, telework, teleworking, virtual work, and work-from-home. Its roots trace back to the 1970s, primarily linked to office-based remote work involving telephone communication (Lamond et al 1997;Homberg et al 2023). Patton (2020) traces the historical roots of working at home and the emergence of the home office in the United States, particularly in the postwar period.…”

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Home-Office Managers Should Get Ready for the “New Normal”

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Olecká

et al. 2024

Administrative Sciences

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This research article aims to explore how employees are coping with working from home and provides practical suggestions for employers and managers adapting to the “new normal”. The main contribution of this research lies in the comprehensive integration of various aspects of managing a home office into four strategies, surpassing the findings of prior studies that focused on specific areas. This was achieved through a qualitative descriptive approach. Through semi-structured interviews with employees in the Czech Republic during the COVID-19 pandemic, four distinct employee types (“Working from Home is Not for Me”, “Yin and Yang”, “Holiday with Emergency”, and “Chameleon”) were identified based on their adaptation strategies. These strategies encompass aspects like time management, self- and family management, setting boundaries, task management, stress reduction, and adherence to rules. The article concludes by offering suggestions for more effective collaboration and employee management, taking into consideration their approach to remote work.

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Home-Office Managers Should Get Ready for the “New Normal”

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Olecká

et al. 2024

Administrative Sciences

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About the (un)acceptability of working in the presence of the child: parents’ constructions of the child and corresponding parental responsibilities

Mikats

2024

Österreich Z Soziol

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The work-family literature suggests a contradictory relationship between working parenthood and (good) childhood, with disruptive or neglected children on the one side and absent or overburdened parents on the other. While the child occupies a complicated space in this relation, their position is rarely examined. Against this background, I explore the position of the child by turning to children’s co-presence during parents’ performance of home-based paid work and ask how parents construct the child and their corresponding parental responsibilities. Following a practice-theoretical framework, I approach parents’ accounts as practices of representation in which the boundaries of what was perceived as (not) acceptable ways of doing family and work were sketched out.For this purpose, I analysed 25 qualitative interviews with and about home-based working parents in the Austrian creative industries with positional maps. The parents had between one and three children in kindergarten or primary school.Parents’ constructions of the child were complex and ambiguous, as were the corresponding parental responsibilities. Meeting the child’s needs and not harming the child emerged as a common ground, yet the parents’ commitment to paid work was not questioned. Conversely, home-based work was seen as a way to meet both work and care demands. These findings suggest that home-based work may bridge ideas of good childhood and working parenthood. The paper contributes to an understanding of work and family that goes beyond simple dualism and offers new insights into parental home-based work, which remains relevant in the post-pandemic era.

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Telework and Work Flexibility in the United States Federal Government Post-Pandemic

Hunter,

Ginn,

Meares

et al. 2024

Public Administration Quarterly

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A decade before the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States (US) federal government was working to create flexible work environments for employees under the 2010 Telework Enhancement Act. Given this reality and the growing desire for greater flexibility of workers inspired by the “Great Resignation” during the pandemic, the US federal government appears to have recovered lost employees faster than other levels of the public sector. Still, given that federal workers skew older with less than a tenth of the workforce being under age 30 years and nearly a third reaching retirement age, a true crisis still looms in our administrative state. Using the 2021 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey Data, we analyze what factors predict turnover intention post-pandemic, focusing the analysis on teleworking and other workplace flexibility policies. We use the findings to make recommendations to help increase employee recruitment and retention within the US federal government.

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From ‘home work’ to ‘home office work’?

Cited by 3 publications

References 99 publications

Home-Office Managers Should Get Ready for the “New Normal”

Home-Office Managers Should Get Ready for the “New Normal”

About the (un)acceptability of working in the presence of the child: parents’ constructions of the child and corresponding parental responsibilities

Telework and Work Flexibility in the United States Federal Government Post-Pandemic

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