Public employees’ identity work and sensemaking of their (home) workplace during and after the lockdown

International Journal of Public Sector Management, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 1, 2025

Purpose This paper explores how public employees’ identities were affected by the reorganization of their home workplaces while doing smart working (SW) during and after pandemic, examining issues individual identity sensemaking within a context characterized spread new forms work. Design/methodology/approach The study employs an ethnographic approach combining photo-elicitation with interviews Italian employees. It takes perspective SW as regime some constitutive logics bringing project to understand this is transforming identities. Findings reveals six practices used employees make sense workplaces. also shows has become regime, under New Public Management umbrella, that shaped identity. Practical implications provides practical policy for administrations adopting work reason upon development better-informed organizational policies support employee well-being when from home. Originality/value introduces novelty in discussion “identity project” defined logics, discourses are molding

Язык: Английский

Comparing teleworkers and traditional workers: Differences in social isolation, burnout, work-life balance and job satisfaction

Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 21

Опубликована: Апрель 17, 2025

Язык: Английский