The shaping of a new ideal of time in the context of working homes. A routine approach
(2024) 40th EGOS Colloquium — Location: Milano, Italy (4.July.2024)
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- In this paper, we seek to investigate how routine dynamics are designed in the context of enforced remote working, extending the production of routines beyond the work sphere. By exploring interactions and incompatibilities between temporal structures co-constructed from and between different spheres, we aim to respond to recent calls in the literature to investigate how organizational actors coordinate their actions between routines (Turner & Rindova, 2018), and in particular, by moving “(…) beyond organizational routines as the unit of analysis and consider relations among routines’’ (Feldman et al., 2016: 511). From a qualitative longitudinal research conducted throughout the COVID-19 crisis, from May 2020 to June 2021 among 13 workers – our analysis shows how an ‘ideal of time’ (see Wajcman, 2015) is enacted and shapes worker’s routines. This ideal of time emerges from the tensions between private and professional routines taking place at home and, encompasses for instance fluidity betweenamong work and non-work activities, leading to the emergence of new routines.
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Coster, S., Ajzen, M., Taskin, L., & Terlinden, L. (2024). The shaping of a new ideal of time in the context of working homes. A routine approach. 40th EGOS Colloquium, Milano, Italy. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/234295