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Co-Creating the Workplace: Participatory Efforts to Enable Individual Work at the Hoffice
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences.
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences.
2018 (English)In: Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing and Work Practices, ISSN 0925-9724, E-ISSN 1573-7551, Vol. 27, no 3-6, p. 947-982Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This paper analyzes the self-organizing network Hoffice – a merger between the words home and office – that brings together people who wish to co-create temporary workplaces. The Hoffice concept entails a co-working methodology, and a set of practices inherent in opening up one’s home as a temporary, shared workplace, with the help of existing social media platforms, particularly Facebook. We discuss both the practices of co-creating temporary workplaces, particularly for workers who lack a stable office and orchestrate flexible work arrangements, and the values and rhetoric enshrined in Hoffice. We collected our research materials through interviews, participant observation, and workshops. Our findings draw attention to i) the practical arrangement of Hoffice events, ii) the participatory efforts to get individual work done, and 3) the co-creation of an alternative social model that encourages trust, self-actualization, and openness. To conclude, we discuss how Hoffice is already making change for its members, and how this is indicative of a politics of care. We contribute to research on computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW) by highlighting grassroots efforts to create alternative ways of organizing nomadic work and navigating non-traditional employment arrangements.

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2018. Vol. 27, no 3-6, p. 947-982
Keywords [en]
Ethnography, Workplace, Mobile work, Flexibility, Network hospitality; politics of care
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Human Computer Interaction
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Information Society
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-158942DOI: 10.1007/s10606-018-9319-zISI: 000441232100021OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-158942DiVA, id: diva2:1240054
Available from: 2018-08-20 Created: 2018-08-20 Last updated: 2023-08-24Bibliographically approved

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