When is a bed not a bed? Exploring the interplay of the material and virtual in negotiating home-work boundaries

Koslowski, Nora Christina; Linehan, Carol; Tietze, Susanne

doi:10.1080/14759551.2017.1349128

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“…It is part of our paradoxical (and sometimes painful) relationship to the world. In this new world of work (especially during the pandemic context marked by the rapid generalization of telework), conflicting and competing demands and values have to bear each other: for example, the discourse of industrial production increasingly meets the discourse of household production (see Tietze & Musson, 2005; Koslowski et al, 2019). Similarly, the engagement with new ways of working increasingly requires workers to set up workspaces for both personal productivity and sociality (cf.…”

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Control and Surveillance in Work Practice: Cultivating Paradox in ‘New’ Modes of Organizing

Vaujany

Leclercq‐Vandelannoitte

Munro

et al. 2021

Organization Studies

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The new world of work is being characterized by the emergence of what are, apparently, increasingly autonomous ways of working and living. Mobile work, coworking, flex of-fice, platform-based entrepreneurship, virtual collaborations, Do It Yourself (DIT), re-mote work, digital nomads, among others trends, epitomize ways of organizing work practice that purportedly aligns productivity with freedom. But most ethnographical research already reveals many paradoxical experiences associated with these new prac-tices and processes. Indeed, it appears that with autonomy comes surveillance and con-trol, to a point where, as Foucault observed way back, subjectivity and subject become synonyms, and the current pandemic both strengthens and makes visible this situation. In this introduction to the special issue we make a foray into this situation, using four open and related themes developed in the five papers we selected: managerial control and technology; surveillance and platform capitalism; time and space; and new organi-zational forms and autonomy. Paradoxical movements are identified for each of them, before we conclude by reflecting on a grounding paradox which appears at the center of this special issue and the themes it covers.

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Control and Surveillance in Work Practice: Cultivating Paradox in ‘New’ Modes of Organizing

Vaujany

Leclercq‐Vandelannoitte

Munro

et al. 2021

Organization Studies

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“…The interview guideline was developed by the author team in two iterative circles and was informed by research in the fields of connectivity (Dery et al, 2014;Kolb et al, 2012), remote work (Charalampous et al, 2019;Koslowski et al, 2019) and technology disconnection (Cai et al, 2020). The interview guideline consisted of questions around if and how the enforced working from home situation has changed the way our participants use technology to a) complete their work tasks, b) collaborate with their peers and superiors and c) interact with their clients.…”

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An affordance perspective of team collaboration and enforced working from home during COVID-19

Waizenegger

McKenna

Cai

et al. 2020

European Journal of Information Systems

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COVID-19 has caused unprecedented challenges to our lives. Many governments have forced people to stay at home, leading to a radical shift from on-site to virtual collaboration for many knowledge workers. Existing remote working literature does not provide a thorough explanation of government-enforced working from home situations. Using an affordance lens, this study explores the sudden and enforced issues that COVID-19 has presented, and the technological means knowledge workers use to achieve their team collaboration goals. We interviewed 29 knowledge workers about their experiences of being required to work from home and introduced the term "enforced work from home". This paper contributes to the affordance theory by providing an understanding of the substitution of affordances for team collaboration during COVID-19. The shifting of affordances results in positive and negative effects on team collaboration as various affordances of technology were perceived and actualised to sustain "business as usual".

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“…For some workers, working from home translates into an 'ontological limbo of being neither here nor there' Musson 2005: 1344). Further to this, Koslowski, Linehan et al (2019) suggest that technology as well as furniture and human bodies form 'boundary objects' that are used to negotiate working from home situations. In sub-sections 3.2.1 and 3.2.2, our findings and analysis illustrate how and where participants negotiated connections between work or learning and home through material and spatio-temporal changes.…”

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The lived experience of COVID-19: housing and household resilience

Horne¹,

Willand²,

Dorignon³

et al. 2020

AHURI Final Report

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AHURI AHURI is a national independent research network with an expert not-for-profit research management company, AHURI Limited, at its centre. AHURI's mission is to deliver high quality research that influences policy development and practice change to improve the housing and urban environments of all Australians. Using high quality, independent evidence and through active, managed engagement, AHURI works to inform the policies and practices of governments and the housing and urban development industries, and stimulate debate in the broader Australian community. AHURI undertakes evidence-based policy development on a range of priority policy topics that are of interest to our audience groups, including housing and labour markets, urban growth and renewal, planning and infrastructure development, housing supply and affordability, homelessness, economic productivity, and social cohesion and wellbeing. AHURI Limited also gratefully acknowledges the contributions, both financial and in-kind, of its university research partners who have helped make the completion of this material possible. Disclaimer The opinions in this report reflect the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of AHURI Limited, its Board, its funding organisations or Inquiry Panel members. No responsibility is accepted by AHURI Limited, its Board or funders for the accuracy or omission of any statement, opinion, advice or information in this publication. AHURI journal AHURI Final Report journal series is a refereed series presenting the results of original research to a diverse readership of policy-makers, researchers and practitioners. Peer review statement An objective assessment of reports published in the AHURI journal series by carefully selected experts in the field ensures that material published is of the highest quality. The AHURI journal series employs a double-blind peer review of the full report, where anonymity is strictly observed between authors and referees.

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When is a bed not a bed? Exploring the interplay of the material and virtual in negotiating home-work boundaries

Abstract: Table 1_June 2017.odt URL: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gsco Culture and Organization When is a bed not a bed? Exploring the interplay of the material and virtual in negotiating homework boundaries.

Cited by 28 publications

References 74 publications

Control and Surveillance in Work Practice: Cultivating Paradox in ‘New’ Modes of Organizing

Control and Surveillance in Work Practice: Cultivating Paradox in ‘New’ Modes of Organizing

An affordance perspective of team collaboration and enforced working from home during COVID-19

The lived experience of COVID-19: housing and household resilience

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