Hybrid work and organisational changes
A set of research analyses the changes that new ways of working have brought about in companies and institutions
Changing how we work to work better or, in certain conditions, simply to continue working. This imperative – dictated by the Covid-19 pandemic – continues to be topical, albeit in a range of forms and interpretations. In any case, we are seeing a paradigm shift in how work and businesses are organised. It is a change, in some ways, also in the very culture of production. This tangle of issues is at the heart of Ri-Organizzare il lavoro. Hybrid work, confini organizzativi e valore (Reorganising Work. Hybrid Work, Organisational Boundaries and Value), a collection of research with hybrid work as its main subject.
In the introduction to the collected surveys, there is an explanation: “The ‘real’ transition to hybrid work was triggered, in large part, by the pandemic. Indeed, this event catapulted organisations into a new era, in which a flexible approach to working locations has become the norm and hybrid work, in this post-pandemic adjustment phase, is establishing itself as a catalyst for radical transformations in organisational practices.”
Changing the way we work has led to “a profound transformation in the culture not only of workers (…) but of organisations, through a rethinking of the fundamentals that underpin how work is organised and, more generally, a review of organisational processes – all aspects with a strong impact on the management of people as well as on spaces and boundaries.”
The collected research then seeks to investigate the series of “changes” that hybrid work entails: in spatial and temporal terms, in the organisation and in its recognition. If, it is explained, work is gradually losing the spatial connotation of “place” (we have moved from teleworking to remote work to hybrid work, which is now accepted as the new label for what is happening) and is also starting to gradually reshape the established connotation of “time” (several experiments are already underway at a national and international level to redefine the number and distribution of weekly hours worked), then the advent of new ways of working is calling into question the very boundary of organisations.
Ri-Organizzare il lavoro. Hybrid work, confini organizzativi e valore (Reorganising Work. Hybrid Work, Organisational Boundaries and Value)
VARIOUS AUTHORS.
ProspettiveInOrganizzazione – Number 24 – 2024
Journal of the Italian Association of Business Organisation Studies
A set of research analyses the changes that new ways of working have brought about in companies and institutions
Changing how we work to work better or, in certain conditions, simply to continue working. This imperative – dictated by the Covid-19 pandemic – continues to be topical, albeit in a range of forms and interpretations. In any case, we are seeing a paradigm shift in how work and businesses are organised. It is a change, in some ways, also in the very culture of production. This tangle of issues is at the heart of Ri-Organizzare il lavoro. Hybrid work, confini organizzativi e valore (Reorganising Work. Hybrid Work, Organisational Boundaries and Value), a collection of research with hybrid work as its main subject.
In the introduction to the collected surveys, there is an explanation: “The ‘real’ transition to hybrid work was triggered, in large part, by the pandemic. Indeed, this event catapulted organisations into a new era, in which a flexible approach to working locations has become the norm and hybrid work, in this post-pandemic adjustment phase, is establishing itself as a catalyst for radical transformations in organisational practices.”
Changing the way we work has led to “a profound transformation in the culture not only of workers (…) but of organisations, through a rethinking of the fundamentals that underpin how work is organised and, more generally, a review of organisational processes – all aspects with a strong impact on the management of people as well as on spaces and boundaries.”
The collected research then seeks to investigate the series of “changes” that hybrid work entails: in spatial and temporal terms, in the organisation and in its recognition. If, it is explained, work is gradually losing the spatial connotation of “place” (we have moved from teleworking to remote work to hybrid work, which is now accepted as the new label for what is happening) and is also starting to gradually reshape the established connotation of “time” (several experiments are already underway at a national and international level to redefine the number and distribution of weekly hours worked), then the advent of new ways of working is calling into question the very boundary of organisations.
Ri-Organizzare il lavoro. Hybrid work, confini organizzativi e valore (Reorganising Work. Hybrid Work, Organisational Boundaries and Value)
VARIOUS AUTHORS.
ProspettiveInOrganizzazione – Number 24 – 2024
Journal of the Italian Association of Business Organisation Studies