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Beyond work and life: constructing new domains in the digital age

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posted on 2023-06-08, 23:51 authored by Rebecca Whiting, Helen Roby, Gillian Symon, Petros Chamakiotis
Work-life balance (WLB) is a metaphor for resolving the temporal conflict as we struggle to deal with competing demands on our time from different domains, broadly conceptualised as ‘work’ and ‘life’. The concept of WLB has been widely criticised (e.g. Wapshott & Mallett, 2012) and contemporary use of digital technologies adds further complexity to this struggle (Duxbury, Higgins, Smart, & Stevenson, 2014). In this paper we focus on ‘switching’, a temporal event in which participants capture on video their real-time self-defined transitions between or within digital/physical domains, as a means of exploring how they construct the demarcations salient to them. We examine the construction of an ‘online’ domain (not limited to ‘work’ or ‘life’) and how participants negotiated and managed boundaries as they ‘switch’ between domains in their daily lives.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Presentation Type

  • paper

Event name

European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)

Event location

Athens, Greece

Event type

conference

Event date

2-4 July

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  • Business and Management Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-01-05

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2016-01-05

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-01-05

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