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

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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 [Pisa])

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.

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  • Marta Fana & Francesco Sabato Massimo & Angelo Moro, 2022. "Autonomy and Control in Mass Remote Working during the COVID-19 Pandemic. A Cross-Occupational Comparison," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-03902167, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:spmain:hal-03902167
    DOI: 10.7202/1094210ar
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