Article: Identify, identify work and the experience of working from home
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The article is designed to find out the experience of working from home, the paper is argued that the transition of managers from office based working atmosphere to partly home based place is more than a physical move the location of the paid work. The data was used was taken from a research project situated in the UK where legislation (UK Employment Act ,2002) has supported the introduction of flexible work arrangements including home-based telework The research identified 25 managers from diverse industrial, sectorial and functional backgrounds who participated in working from home initiatives. They all were professional managers with diplomas, certificates. They all began to work from home at least part of their working time during the previous 12 months. The qualitative methodological approach based on in-depth interviews and observational data was collected during home visits, to understand the respondent’s lives by using semi-structured interviews as a form of talk that captures subjective narratives. All interviews were carried out in their home environment of the managers, including house tours and conversations with family members. Specifically they were asked about if there are changes in their routines and behaviour.
The 3 case studies are presented of the different approaches to managing the identified challenges that was involved working from home. These 3 cases show the reality of life people facing every day, that’s gives us more understanding and an ability to observe much better.
In the first case are presented the senior manager called Tom who works in a UK based medium-sized production company. After a further month of working from home, he decides that as a good manager he needs to stay in the organisation where all his colleagues. He was founding himself missing his colleagues being around him and finding hard being at home, doing his work ,not spending his time with his family. Also that was harder for him
The article is designed to find out the experience of working from home, the paper is argued that the transition of managers from office based working atmosphere to partly home based place is more than a physical move the location of the paid work. The data was used was taken from a research project situated in the UK where legislation (UK Employment Act ,2002) has supported the introduction of flexible work arrangements including home-based telework The research identified 25 managers from diverse industrial, sectorial and functional backgrounds who participated in working from home initiatives. They all were professional managers with diplomas, certificates. They all began to work from home at least part of their working time during the previous 12 months. The qualitative methodological approach based on in-depth interviews and observational data was collected during home visits, to understand the respondent’s lives by using semi-structured interviews as a form of talk that captures subjective narratives. All interviews were carried out in their home environment of the managers, including house tours and conversations with family members. Specifically they were asked about if there are changes in their routines and behaviour.
The 3 case studies are presented of the different approaches to managing the identified challenges that was involved working from home. These 3 cases show the reality of life people facing every day, that’s gives us more understanding and an ability to observe much better.
In the first case are presented the senior manager called Tom who works in a UK based medium-sized production company. After a further month of working from home, he decides that as a good manager he needs to stay in the organisation where all his colleagues. He was founding himself missing his colleagues being around him and finding hard being at home, doing his work ,not spending his time with his family. Also that was harder for him