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Time Use and the Impact of Technology: Examining workspaces in the home

Carol Kaufman-ScarboroughView all authors and affiliations
Volume 15, Issue 1
https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X06061782

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Times have changed. The distinctions between work time and household time are no longer limited by the constraints of physical space. Indeed, the boundaries of time and space between the home and the outside world have been blurred by home computers, faxes, email, pagers, and other technologies, bringing home into the workplace and work into the home space. The purpose of this manuscript is to re-examine the time–space relationship as new patterns of time use are necessitated by home workspaces. My particular interest lies in proposing and developing a conceptual schema that helps researchers to examine the intra-household time interactions that result when workspaces are integrated within the home space. In the present study, I develop a set of research propositions and a conceptual framework for analytical use.

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1. The Journal of Managerial Psychology published a special issue on Polychronicity that was guest-edited by Allen C. Bluedorn. Eleven articles are included in Volume 14, numbers 3/4 and 5/6, published in 1999. The articles provide detailed conceptual background plus various illustrations of scale refinement.

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Volume 15, Issue 1
Pages: 57 - 80
Article first published: March 2006
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  1. time use
  2. workspaces
  3. work at home
  4. leisure
  5. polychronicity
  6. time regimes

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