New ways of working and residing: Towards temporary arrangements in large city regions in Germany

IF 4 2区地球科学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-08 DOI:10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103592

Leonie Wächter, Caroline Kramer

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Abstract

The acceleration of everyday life, increasing mobility and the individualization of society are giving rise to postmodern living and working arrangements that are often designed to be temporary. For the last decades, permanent and full-time employment relationships have increasingly been replaced by atypical forms of employment, characterized by flexible working hours and temporary employment. Such working relationships are often associated with the implementation of the New Work concept from a company perspective. With the results of the representative standardized survey, which took place in two large city regions in Germany in spring 2023, we analysed the spatial and social effects of temporary forms of working and residing and their interdependence. We see that temporary employment is directly related to self-assessments of temporary residency. While the diversity of working arrangements is increasing, many regional specifics, such as distressed labour and housing markets, significantly influence employees' location decisions. Our findings will enable more precise planning of both working and living spaces across entire city regions.

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Applied Geography GEOGRAPHY-

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8.00

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2.00%

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134

期刊介绍： Applied Geography is a journal devoted to the publication of research which utilizes geographic approaches (human, physical, nature-society and GIScience) to resolve human problems that have a spatial dimension. These problems may be related to the assessment, management and allocation of the world physical and/or human resources. The underlying rationale of the journal is that only through a clear understanding of the relevant societal, physical, and coupled natural-humans systems can we resolve such problems. Papers are invited on any theme involving the application of geographical theory and methodology in the resolution of human problems.