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Lecture 2: New ways of working - Coggle Diagram
Lecture 2: New ways of working
2. Telework paradoxes and practices: the importance of the nature of work (Boell)
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Telework outcomes and implications
Diversity of work of teleworkers
telework = dependent on the tasks
e.g. collaborative decision making is harder
ICT enactment in work practices
Different appropriation of Tech
Outcomes of telework my deffer
Compexity of work and individual experiences
Adressing the Paradoxes of telework
Unintended concequences (first and second order effects)
ICT appropriated matters (type of work)
Telework is idiosyncratic (experienced differently by worker)
Telework paradoxes:
more or less productivity
Job satisfaction or isolation
Good or bad for work-life balance
3. Contagious offsite work and the lonely office: the unintended consequences of distributed work (Rockmann)
Distributed work:
Reliance on communication technology
Reduced supervision
Physical distance
interpresonally connected
Why workers work offsite
no one else is there
nature of office have changed: Little advantage over working ofsite
Perception of isolation
Coming to office is pointless
Human action:
Distributed work gets a life on it's own
Begins with the choice of one individual to take advantage of policies
4. Mapping themes in the study of new work practices
(NWP)
Post bureaucratic work pracices:
Platform capitalism
freelancing
Zero-hour contracts
New work arrangements
Paradox: new images of new world of work
Positive: Skilled workers
Less positive: low skilled workers (no job security)
4 Dimentions:
Spatial & temporal manifestations of NWP
Individuals, orgnizations and NW configurations
Conceptual & methodological considerations
Power and Control
Power and control:
Manegeral fears
Culture of overwork
Paradoxal realtion between independence/flexibility and control