Where does work belong anymore? The impact of the COVID19 pandemic on working in the UK

工作又属于哪里？

• 批准号: ES/V003976/2
• 负责人: Abigail Marks
• 金额: $ 16.67万
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV003976%2F2
• 关键词: Where; does; work; belong; anymore

The COVID-19 outbreak has forced companies to embrace home-based working (HBW) at such speed that they have had little opportunity to consider the impact on their workers. It can be argued that the crisis has led to the most significant, intensive social experiment of digital, HBW that has ever occurred. The current situation, which involves the whole household being based at home, is an unprecedented challenge which may be at least an intermittent fixture, for the next eighteen months (BBC Futures, 25/03/20). The press have suggested that this revolution "might also offer an opportunity for many companies to finally build a culture that allows long-overdue work flexibility ...many employees for companies who have sent all staff home are already starting to question why they had to go into the office in the first place" (The Guardian, 13/02/20). These optimistic takes on the current patterns of work focus on HBW's emancipatory potential, offering flexibility, the lubrication of work and family responsibilities and the promise of increased productivity. Yet, this new world order, where the home becomes a multi-occupational, multi-person workplace and school, not only challenges boundaries but also conceptions of the domestic space. The impact of homeworking is likely to present significant variation depending on organisational support, the worker's role, socio-economic status, employment status, as well as household composition and size of living space. There are significant concerns regarding intensified HBW, including poor work-life balance, enhanced domestic tensions and disproportionately negative impacts on those in lower socio-economic groupings. Moreover, HBW increases the proportion of time women (most often) spend on housework and childcare, reproducing and reinforcing gender roles within the new 'work-space'We will examine in-depth this radical shift in working arrangements and how it impacts on the wellbeing and productivity of workers and their households. Using a combination of in-depth interviews with sixty participants, representing the spectrum of this novel group of homeworkers, as well as a large-scale survey, this project (Working@Home) will provide unrivalled insights into the experience of home-working for the UK population and will serve as a permanent record of the lives of citizens in this unprecedented time. The research will be key in understanding the expectations that organisations have placed on workers, as well as the robustness of support systems that have been put in place, taking into account the rapid advancement of home working systems with almost no preparation and only limited existing support structures or expertise. The findings will provide a benchmark for the resilience of both individuals and businesses and demonstrate the potential for the robustness of the infrastructure in the return to a 'new normal' after the crisis. In order to ensure that the findings from the project are accessible to all, we are developing a website (workingathome.org.uk) that will host up to date information on the progress of the project, details of the project team, guidance for participants as well as information regarding our webinar series. The project aims to produce guidance to individuals, organisations and policy makers on how to best manage the ongoing medical emergency from a home-working perspective as well as providing guidance for any future pandemic scenario.

COVID-19爆发迫使公司以如此快的速度接受在家工作（HBW），以至于他们几乎没有机会考虑对员工的影响。可以说，这场危机导致了有史以来最重要、最密集的数字社会实验--HBW。目前的情况是，整个家庭都呆在家里，这是一个前所未有的挑战，在未来的18个月里，这可能至少是一个间歇性的固定装置（BBC期货，25/03/20）。新闻界认为，这场革命“也可能为许多公司提供一个机会，最终建立一种文化，允许长期拖延的工作灵活性。许多公司的员工已经开始质疑为什么他们必须首先进入办公室”（卫报，13/02/20）。这些乐观的看法对目前的工作模式的重点是HBW的解放潜力，提供灵活性，润滑的工作和家庭责任和提高生产力的承诺。然而，这种新的世界秩序，家庭成为一个多职业，多人的工作场所和学校，不仅挑战了界限，也挑战了家庭空间的概念。在家工作的影响可能会因组织支持、工人的角色、社会经济地位、就业状况以及家庭组成和生活空间的大小而存在重大差异。人们对HBW加剧表示严重关切，包括工作与生活平衡不良，国内紧张局势加剧以及对社会经济地位较低群体的负面影响不成比例。此外，HBW增加了女性（最经常）花在家务和育儿上的时间比例，在新的“工作空间”中再现和加强了性别角色。通过对60名参与者的深入访谈，代表了这一新颖的家庭工作者群体的光谱，以及大规模的调查，该项目（Working@Home）将为英国人口的家庭工作体验提供无与伦比的见解，并将成为这个前所未有的时代公民生活的永久记录。这项研究将是了解组织对工人的期望以及已经到位的支持系统的稳健性的关键，考虑到家庭工作系统的快速发展，几乎没有准备，只有有限的现有支持结构或专业知识。调查结果将为个人和企业的复原力提供基准，并展示危机后基础设施恢复“新常态”的潜力。为了确保所有人都能获得该项目的结果，我们正在开发一个网站（workingathome.org.uk），其中将提供有关该项目进展情况的最新信息、项目团队的详细信息、对参与者的指导以及有关我们网络研讨会系列的信息。该项目旨在为个人、组织和政策制定者提供指导，指导他们如何从家庭工作的角度最好地管理正在进行的医疗紧急情况，并为任何未来的大流行情况提供指导。

项目成果

Where does work belong anymore? The implications of intensive homebased working

工作又属于哪里？

• DOI: 10.1108/gm-06-2020-0173
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: An International Journal
• 作者: Mallett O

The Great Resignation in the UK - reality, fake news or something in between?

英国的“大辞职”——现实、假新闻还是介于两者之间？

• DOI: 10.1108/pr-09-2022-0608
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Personnel Review
• 影响因子: 3.9
• 作者: Marks A