Published: 2019-12-31

At home in the office. Homo officens material environment

Karolina J. Dudek
Journal of Urban Ethnology
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/JUE17.2019.006

Abstract

The article discusses the processes of domesticating offices and making the workplace feel like home. First, the author describes the ways of taming and personalizing territorial offices: she analyses the ways of bottom- up shaping and taming of the workplace, inscribing one’s identity and biography, as well as resistance and contestation – tactics that constitute answers to corporate strategies. Next, she discusses changes in the arrangement of work space in non-territorial offices. The author concludes that manufacturers of office furniture are important actors who shape the processes of the domestication of space in offices, capturing both tactics and strategies.

Keywords:

offices, workplace, work, office furniture

Citation rules

Dudek, K. (2019). At home in the office. Homo officens material environment. Journal of Urban Ethnology, 17, 97–108. https://doi.org/10.23858/JUE17.2019.006

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