Open spaces, supple bodies? Considering the impact of agile working on social work office practices
Open spaces, supple bodies? Considering the impact of agile working on social work office practices
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开放的空间、柔软的身体？
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2016
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D. Jeyasingham
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D. Jeyasingham
英国许多地区的社会工作者已经发生了转变，他们在大型开放式办公室工作，在太空中更灵活、更远程地工作。这种方法通常被称为“敏捷工作”。本文探讨了敏捷工作对社会工作者在办公空间中的实践和体验的影响。它讨论了来自两个地点的儿童保护社会工作小组的民族志研究的数据。一个团队位于一个大型开放式办公室，从事敏捷工作，另一个团队位于一个小得多的办公室，没有使用这种方法。对实践的观察，对物质空间的分析，以及对社会工作者和负责规划办公空间的人的采访，都对数据进行了检验。本研究的结论是，由于灵活的工作安排，这些空间之间存在质的差异，这些差异可能会对社会工作者的实践体验、与同事的互动和实践知识的发展产生重大影响。这些数据还表明，社会工作领域缺乏对从业者的空间要求以及私人和开放空间对当前英国背景下的儿童社会工作的重要性的理解。
There has been a shift towards social workers in many areas of the UK being based in large open plan offices and working more flexibly and remotely in space. This approach is commonly referred to as ‘agile working’. The paper explores the impact of agile working on social workers’ practices and experiences in office spaces. It discusses data from an ethnographic study of children’s safeguarding social work teams in two locations. One team was based in a large open plan office and was engaged in agile working, the other team was located in a much smaller office and was not using this approach. Data from observations of practice, analysis of material spaces, and interviews with social workers and those responsible for planning office space are examined. The paper concludes that there are qualitative differences between such spaces which are due to agile working arrangements and which are likely to impact significantly on social workers’ experiences of practice, interactions with colleagues and development of practice knowledge. The data also suggest a lack of understanding in social work of the spatial requirements of practitioners and the significance that private and open space has for children’s social work in the current UK context.