Neither work nor leisure: temporalities and life world realities of split shift work in the Austrian care sector

IF 1.2 4区管理学 Q4 MANAGEMENT

Culture and Organization Pub Date : 2023-04-24 DOI:10.1080/14759551.2023.2203490

Karin Sardadvar, Cornelia Reiter

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Employment conditions have been subject to far-reaching flexibilization and fragmentation in recent decades. One of the many ways to make labor flexibly available and cost-effective is to divide the working day using split shifts. In this qualitative study on the home care sector in Austria, we investigate the workers’ experiences of split shifts as example of fragmented work and unsocial working times. On an empirical level, the findings show that split shifts imply severe challenges for the workers. On a conceptual level, the research emphasizes the need to consider complex and subjective dimensions of time in researching working times. Our findings suggest that even seemingly clear delineations between work and non-work time are in fact fragile and ambivalent. In that sense, the interruption between the two shifts in split shift work is neither work nor real leisure.

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既不是工作也不是休闲：奥地利护理部门轮班工作的时间性和生活世界现实

摘要近几十年来，就业条件受到了影响深远的灵活性和分散性的影响。使劳动力灵活可用且具有成本效益的多种方法之一是使用分班制来划分工作日。在这项关于奥地利家庭护理部门的定性研究中，我们调查了工人的轮班经历，作为分散工作和非社交工作时间的例子。在实证层面上，研究结果表明，轮班对工人来说意味着严峻的挑战。在概念层面上，该研究强调在研究工作时间时需要考虑时间的复杂和主观维度。我们的研究结果表明，即使工作时间和非工作时间之间看似清晰的划分，实际上也是脆弱和矛盾的。从这个意义上说，两班倒工作之间的中断既不是工作，也不是真正的休闲。

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Culture and Organization MANAGEMENT-

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3.20

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： Culture and Organization was founded in 1995 as Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies . It represents the intersection of academic disciplines that have developed distinct qualitative, empirical and theoretical vocabularies to research organization, culture and related social phenomena. Culture and Organization features refereed articles that offer innovative insights and provoke discussion. It particularly offers papers which employ ethnographic, critical and interpretive approaches, as practised in such disciplines as organizational, communication, media and cultural studies, which go beyond description and use data to advance theoretical reflection. The Journal also presents papers which advance our conceptual understanding of organizational phenomena. Culture and Organization features refereed articles that offer innovative insights and provoke discussion. It particularly offers papers which employ ethnographic, critical and interpretive approaches, as practised in such disciplines as communication, media and cultural studies, which go beyond description and use data to advance theoretical reflection. The journal also presents papers which advance our conceptual understand-ing of organizational phenomena.