Thesis supervisor:
In the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, work is set to evolve and frequently take the form of remote working for a significant proportion of employees. There is such a consensus that we are seeing business stakeholders (HR managers, middle managers, affected employees, etc.) reflecting on how to organize these new ways of working. According to the hypothesis that inspires this thesis, the period ahead will be one of individual and collective work necessary to arrange all these elements in order to combine them as effectively as possible, i.e., to enable both productive organizations and individual employees to reconcile distance and presence, the immediate and the mediated, the formal and the informal. This thesis therefore posits that what is at stake are arrangements—between legal frameworks, materially organized spaces, technologies, forms of collectives, but also the locations of employees, the configuration of their housing and family life, etc. These arrangements should be studied in terms of their trajectories of invention or development, which could imply that, rather than a once-and-for-all establishment of new frameworks, we are dealing with learning processes.
Thanks to the Covid-19 crisis, work is expected to evolve and frequently take the form of remote work for large proportions of employees. We see company stakeholders (HRD, middle managers, employees, etc.) reflecting on the organization of these working methods. According to the hypothesis that inspires this research work, the period that is now beginning shows us that individual and collective work is necessary to organize all these elements in order to associate them as best as possible with each other, with a view to allowing productive organizations and employees to reconcile in the least unstable way the distant and the present, the immediate and the mediated, the formal and the informal. This thesis formulates the hypothesis that arrangements—between legal frameworks, materially organized spaces, technologies, forms of collectives, but also the locations of employees, a configuration of their home and family life, etc.—are being created. These arrangements must be studied in their trajectories of invention or elaboration, which could imply that we are dealing with learning processes.
Year of
enrollment: 2021
Doctoral school: Organizations, Markets, Institutions (OMI)