Working from Home in Urban China during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Assemblages of Work-Family Interference.

IF 2.7 3区管理学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Work Employment and Society Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Epub Date: 2022-06-02 DOI:10.1177/09500170221080870

Li Sun, Tao Liu, Weiquan Wang

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of workers globally have been forced to work from home. Empirical data from Chinese cities in the Hubei province reveal work productivity decreased among many respondents working from home in 2020, primarily due to family interference with work. Such interference stems not only from the domain of daily life but also from other family members' e-working and e-learning. Conversely, respondents' work interferes with family; thus, interference operates bi-directionally. This article proposes an analytical framework of work-family interference along three dimensions: work-daily life, work-work, work-study, and each dimension can be understood through four distinct aspects: temporality, physicality, vocality, digitality. Remote workers encounter 'assemblages of work-family interference', consisting of a heterogeneous mixture of these dimensions and aspects. Furthermore, some factors (e.g., living patterns, work culture, digital infrastructure) constrain effective work-family boundary management among urban households.

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在 COVID-19 大流行期间，中国城市居民在家工作：工作与家庭干扰的组合。

在 COVID-19 大流行期间，全球数百万工人被迫在家工作。来自中国湖北省城市的经验数据显示，2020 年在家工作的许多受访者的工作效率下降，主要原因是家庭对工作的干扰。这种干扰不仅来自日常生活领域，还来自其他家庭成员的电子工作和电子学习。反之，受访者的工作也会干扰家庭；因此，干扰是双向的。本文从三个维度提出了工作-家庭干扰的分析框架：工作-日常生活、工作-工作、工作-学习，每个维度可以通过四个不同的方面来理解：时间性、物理性、职业性、数字化。远程工作者会遇到 "工作-家庭干扰的组合"，由这些维度和方面的异质混合物组成。此外，一些因素（如生活模式、工作文化、数字基础设施）限制了城市家庭对工作与家庭边界的有效管理。

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期刊介绍： Work, Employment and Society (WES) is a leading international peer reviewed journal of the British Sociological Association which publishes theoretically informed and original research on the sociology of work. Work, Employment and Society covers all aspects of work, employment and unemployment and their connections with wider social processes and social structures. The journal is sociologically orientated but welcomes contributions from other disciplines which addresses the issues in a way that informs less debated aspects of the journal"s remit, such as unpaid labour and the informal economy.