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Overview
Long-established routines and disciplines of the personal office are being superseded in a multiplicity of new locations, such as "hot desks", "touchdown areas", "home offices", motorway service stations, airport lounges, cars, trains and planes. Drawing on original research, this book analyzes the impact of these developments on the experience of time and space, privacy and surveillance, freedom and constraint in everyday working life.
Synopsis
"The workplace" is no longer confined to clearly delineated times and spaces. Just as the industrial revolution created two distinct spheres of social life—home and work—the technology revolution is blending them together. Employees with laptops, cell phones, faxes, e-mail, and other technology are unbound by temporal and geographical constraints; at the office, they may not even have their own assigned desks anymore. Felstead and his co-authors, employment specialists associated with the Centre for Labour Market Studies, U. of Leicester, UK, analyze what changes in the physical layout of white-collar workplaces mean for employees and their organizations. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR