Home at Work or Work at Home?
On the Understanding and Dynamics of Border Areas during a Pandemic
Home at Work or Work at Home?
On the Understanding and Dynamics of Border Areas during a Pandemic
Author(s): Dorota Mroczkowska, Małgorzata Kubacka, Monika Frąckowiak-SochańskaSubject(s): Social development, Health and medicine and law, Human Resources in Economy
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne
Keywords: work-life boundary; boundary work; collapsed role boundary; permeability; COVID-19; Poland;
Summary/Abstract: The article examines some of the findings of a qualitative research project that looked into the issue of daily “boundary work” as experienced by working adults with and without children during the COVID-19 pandemic. We define boundary work as work that occurs at the intersection of two domains: work and life. We concentrate on border locations in the context of two major issues: first, how people identify borders (boundary identity), and second, what individual coping strategies (cognitive and emotional boundary work) were produced by the pandemic. Because of the frequent spatial overlap between the two spheres (work and life), temporal and spatial boundaries became ineffective, and the majority of the labor of creating borders was moved to mental and emotional levels.
Journal: Polish Sociological Review
- Issue Year: 221/2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 107-126
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English