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Managing collapsed boundaries in global work (2023)

Sivunen, A., Gibbs, J. L., & Leppäkumpu, J. (2023). Managing collapsed boundaries in global work. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 28(4), Article zmad019. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmad019

JYU-tekijät tai -toimittajat

Sivunen, Anu
Leppäkumpu, Jonna

Julkaisun tiedot

Julkaisun kaikki tekijät tai toimittajat: Sivunen, Anu; Gibbs, Jennifer L; Leppäkumpu, Jonna

Lehti tai sarja: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

eISSN: 1083-6101

Julkaisuvuosi: 2023

Ilmestymispäivä: 12.06.2023

Volyymi: 28

Lehden numero: 4

Artikkelinumero: zmad019

Kustantaja: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Julkaisumaa: Britannia

Julkaisun kieli: englanti

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmad019

Julkaisun avoin saatavuus: Avoimesti saatavilla

Julkaisukanavan avoin saatavuus: Kokonaan avoin julkaisukanava

Julkaisu on rinnakkaistallennettu (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/88254

Tiivistelmä

Global workers have long contended with the challenges of working across geographical, temporal, and cultural boundaries enabled by communication technologies. However, the global work research has rarely intersected with the literature on work–home boundary management—which has been brought to the forefront due to the forced move to remote work during the Covid-19 pandemic. Drawing on a qualitative field study of 55 in-depth interviews with global workers from a large organization headquartered in the Nordics, we found that global workers drew on sociomaterial affordances to manage both global work and work–home boundaries through strategies of boundary support and boundary collapse. Although the shift to remote work created challenges due to boundary collapse, it presented new spatiotemporal affordances that led to unexpected benefits for both global work and work–life boundary management. The findings have implications for global work, remote work, and the future of work more broadly.

YSO-asiasanat: etätyö; työntekijät; työelämä; globalisaatio; globaali hallinta; COVID-19; viestintätekniikka