When 'Work' Meets 'Home

Temporal flexibility as lived experience

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4356317
AutoresSusanne Tietze (0000-0002-3819-5662, Nottingham Business School, The Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street, Nottingham NG1 4BU, UK), Gillian Musson (The Management School, University of Sheffield, 9 Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 4DT, UK)
Año2002
Volumen11
Número2-3
Páginas315-334
Fecha de publicación2002-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTime & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0961463x02011002008
OpenAlexW1878110284
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas49
Referencias citadas28

This article reports on research that explored the experience of 25 professional management employees who worked regular periods from home, but remained full-time salaried employees. Based on interviews with these workers in their home using language, routines and observations as data the article tracks how organizational policies of flexibility translate into individuals' experience of lived temporalities. The article concludes with the view that such new forms of work organization are neither necessarily corrosive of character, nor do they provide the individual with unlimited opportunity to shape the work process beyond organizational control. Rather, they recast the relationship between 'home' and 'work', necessitating the individual to engage reflectively with both spheres

Character (mathematics · Flexibility (engineering · Management · Political science · Process (computing · Public relations · Sociology · Temporalities · Work (physics · Computer Science · Emotional Labor in Professions · Engineering · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges · Workaholism, burnout, and well-being