The paper aims at investigating the forms of time crafting activated by mobile workers in coworking spaces. In doing so the paper draws on and contribute to three different streams of research: literature on social acceleration, studies on job crafting and extant recent research on coworking spaces. Results reported in the paper are based on an exploratory qualitative empirical research that involved 126 coworkers of 39 coworking spaces in the Italian Region Emilia-Romagna. Empirical evidence suggests two forms of time crafting that coworkers may adopt to structure and manage their time and the relationship between their work time and non-work time: time boundaries crafting and relational time crafting. The former basically refers to actions aimed at separating or overlapping work time and non-work time by frequenting the coworking space; the latter includes actions aimed at concentrating inside the coworking space all the time devoted to professional relationships as well as at ritualizing extra-work relationships. In both the time crafting forms, the coworking space plays a relevant role providing the workers with physical artifacts, services and intangible resources (basically a sense of community) which support coworkers in their actions aimed at crafting the timing, length and temporal intensity of their work and non-work activities.

Attingendo e contribuendo alla letteratura sulla accelerazione sociale, agli studi organizzativi sul job crafting e alla più recenti ricerche sui coworking, l’articolo indaga le forme di time crafting attivate dai mobile workers che frequentano gli spazi di coworking. I risultati riportati si basano su una ricerca empirica qualitativa esplorativa che ha coinvolto 126 frequentatori di 39 spazi di coworking nella Regione Emilia-Romagna. L'evidenza empirica suggerisce che i coworkers attivano due forme di time crafting per strutturare e gestire il loro tempo e la relazione tra il loro tempo di lavoro e di non lavoro: il time boundaries crafting e il relational time crafting. La prima forma si riferisce fondamentalmente a tutte quelle azioni volte a separare o sovrapporre tempo di lavoro e tempo di non lavoro che vengono favorite dalla frequentazione dello spazio di coworking. La seconda forma include quelle azioni volte a concentrare all'interno dello spazio di coworking tutto il tempo dedicato alle relazioni professionali e a ritualizzare le relazioni extra-lavorative che si sviluppano spontaneamente nel coworking. In entrambe le forme di time crafting, lo spazio di coworking gioca un ruolo rilevante fornendo ai mobile workers che lo frequentano artefatti fisici, servizi e risorse immateriali (fondamentalmente il senso di comunità) che li supportano nelle loro azioni volte a strutture e gestire la collocazione temporale (timing), l’estensione nel tempo (length) e l’intensità (intensity, pace) delle loro attività lavorative e non lavorative.

Il time crafting negli spazi di coworking / Rinaldini, M.; Scapolan, A; Rodighiero, S.; Montanari, F.. - In: STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI. - ISSN 0391-8769. - 2/2021:(2021), pp. 67-92.

Il time crafting negli spazi di coworking

Rinaldini M.;Scapolan A;Rodighiero S.;Montanari F.
2021

Abstract

The paper aims at investigating the forms of time crafting activated by mobile workers in coworking spaces. In doing so the paper draws on and contribute to three different streams of research: literature on social acceleration, studies on job crafting and extant recent research on coworking spaces. Results reported in the paper are based on an exploratory qualitative empirical research that involved 126 coworkers of 39 coworking spaces in the Italian Region Emilia-Romagna. Empirical evidence suggests two forms of time crafting that coworkers may adopt to structure and manage their time and the relationship between their work time and non-work time: time boundaries crafting and relational time crafting. The former basically refers to actions aimed at separating or overlapping work time and non-work time by frequenting the coworking space; the latter includes actions aimed at concentrating inside the coworking space all the time devoted to professional relationships as well as at ritualizing extra-work relationships. In both the time crafting forms, the coworking space plays a relevant role providing the workers with physical artifacts, services and intangible resources (basically a sense of community) which support coworkers in their actions aimed at crafting the timing, length and temporal intensity of their work and non-work activities.
2021
2/2021
67
92
Il time crafting negli spazi di coworking / Rinaldini, M.; Scapolan, A; Rodighiero, S.; Montanari, F.. - In: STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI. - ISSN 0391-8769. - 2/2021:(2021), pp. 67-92.
Rinaldini, M.; Scapolan, A; Rodighiero, S.; Montanari, F.
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