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Spatial and temporal segmenting of urban workplaces: The gendering of multi-locational working

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Authors

Reuschke, Darja 

Abstract

Existing urban research has focused on gender differences in commuting patterns to and from homes, but has paid little attention to the gendered diversity in the spatiotemporal patterns of work. The increase in remote working and information and communications technology (ICT) work has been emphasised, but at the cost of exploring the full range of workplaces and multi-locational working observed in urban areas. This article develops a new classificatory system to analyse the spatiotemporal patterns of work in European cities using the 2015 6th European Working Conditions Survey. We identify 12 distinct spatiotemporal work patterns of full-time workers and investigate gender differences across these patterns against the backdrop of occupation, industrial sector, employment status, household composition and ICT use. Findings show that women are far more likely to be restricted to only working at the employer/business premises while men have more varied and complex spatiotemporal patterns of work. Multi-locational working rather than working at one workplace is a largely male phenomenon. Working exclusively at home is still a rarity, but combinations with employer premises and other workplaces are more common. We conclude that workplace research has been blinkered by narrow concerns of advances in mobile technologies and has been blind to the pervasive effects of spatiotemporal divisions in the working lives of men and women. The methodological and theoretical implications of this new perspective on workplaces for urban development and research are discussed.

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Special issue: New spatialities of work in the city, homeworking, occupational gender segregation, remote work, self-employment, third places, 在家工作, 职业性别隔离, 远程工作, 自营职业, 第三类场所 (Third Places)

Journal Title

Urban Studies

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Journal ISSN

0042-0980
1360-063X

Volume Title

58

Publisher

SAGE Publications
Sponsorship
european research council (WORKANDHOME)