Work in times of the pandemic - Risk politics and dynamic boundary management of work under the conditions of SARS-CoV-2

电晕大流行对工作世界产生深远影响。物理距离措施正在改变工作组织和工作实践，加速工作世界的数字化转型。但工作中的非正式和身体因素的重要性往往被忽视。大量的工作活动在不同程度上需要身体的存在，这阻碍了全面数字化和技术性的提高。物理距离和工作质量风险之间的目标冲突引发了各种争议，因为correlation/身体和社会closeness.This项目的收益损失的物理和技术层面的工作之间的边界和联系必须重新配置的假设，因为电晕危机，这是与风险竞争的出现。现代风险社会面临的挑战是，如何妥善处理疫情期间出现的不确定性和冲突，并建立一种针对物质/社会问题边界转移的风险治理。本项目基于软件工程、制造业中小企业、文化机构（剧院）和保健系统。这允许观察工作的变化，在不同的部门，是由增加的技术性和相关性的体现/corporeality工作组织和practice.Central问题的程度区分的项目要回答的是：哪些工作实践的变化是由电晕危机推动前进？工作的身体和技术层面是如何重新配置和重新联系的？在病毒感染风险和通过物理距离损害工作质量的风险之间的紧张关系领域，出现了哪些冲突？如何在个人、组织和政治层面上协商这些风险冲突？组织和政治机构通过哪些监管实践和治理形式应对挑战？可以确定哪些最佳做法来处理紧张地区和冲突风险？除了分析SARS-CoV-2的后果外，该项目还打算提高对大流行病如何影响工作世界的认识，帮助制定（大流行病）危机时期的风险管理预防战略。此外，该项目的研究结果将有助于进一步发展社会学方法来改变工作和社会治理。在该项目中，工作社会学的专业知识与科学技术研究和治理研究的观点相结合。

The Corona pandemic has a far-reaching impact on the world of work. Physical distancing measures are changing work organization and work practices, accelerating the digital transformation of the world of work. But often the significance of informal and bodily elements of work is overlooked. A considerable amount of work activities requires bodily presence to a varying extent, impeding a total digitization and increased technicality. Manifold controversies are sparked by the conflict of objectives between physical distancing and risks for work quality due to loss of corporeal/bodily and social closeness.This project proceeds from the assumption that boundaries and links between physical and technological dimensions of work have to be re-configured because of the Corona crisis, which is associated with the emergence of risk competitions. Modern risk society is challenged to find an adequate handling of the uncertainties and conflicts emerging in times of the pandemic, and to establish a risk governance for boundary shifts in physical/social matters.The project investigates the changes, areas of tension and forms of governance resulting from this reconfigurations, on the basis of comparative empirical case studies in the fields of software engineering, SME in manufacturing industries, cultural institutions (theatre) and health care system. This permits to observe the change of work in various sectors that are distinguished by the dimensions of degree of increased technicality and relevance of embodiment/corporeality for work organization and practice.Central questions to be answered by the project are: Which changes of work practices are driven forward by the corona crisis? In what way are bodily and technological dimensions of work re-configured and re-linked? Which conflicts emerge in the area of tension between the risk of virus infection and the risk of impairing work quality through physical distancing? How are these risk conflicts negotiated on the individual, organizational, and political level? By means of which regulation practices and governance forms do organizations and political institutions respond to the challenges? Which best practices can be identified to deal with areas of tension and risk conflicts?Beyond an analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 consequences, the project intends to improve the understanding how pandemics generally influence the world of work, contributing to develop preventive strategies of risk governance in times of (pandemic) crises. In addition, the project findings will serve to further develop sociological approaches to the change of work and the governance of society. Within the project, expertise in sociology of work is combined with perspectives from Science and Technology Studies and governance studies.