Autonomy and Control in Mass Remote Working during the COVID-19 Pandemic. A Cross-Occupational Comparison

Marta Fana (marta.fana@sciences-po.org), Francesco Sabato Massimo (francescosabato.massimo@sciencespo.fr) and Angelo Moro
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Marta Fana: JRC - European Commission - Joint Research Centre [Seville]
Francesco Sabato Massimo: CSO - Centre de sociologie des organisations (Sciences Po, CNRS) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Angelo Moro: INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, SSSUP - Scuola Universitaria Superiore Sant'Anna = Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies [Pisa]

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Abstract: The global COVID-19 pandemic acted as an exogenous shock that forced organizations to adopt homeworking as a common form of work for many occupations. Drawing on a real-time cross-occupational qualitative survey, we first examined how compulsory homeworking affected workers' freedom to define and perform their tasks. Second, we analyzed how different forms of control developed under the new organization of work. Specifically, we studied how the outcomes varied by occupation and along the vertical division of labour. Our findings agree with those of labour process theorists who argue that personal, bureaucratic and technical forms of control complement each other, rather than being stages of a linear succession.

Keywords: homeworking; work organization; labour process; autonomy; control (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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Published in Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2022, 77 (3), ⟨10.7202/1094210ar⟩

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DOI: 10.7202/1094210ar

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