Working from home : we don't need more space, we need space
Rute Costa, Ana and Ellsworth-Krebs, Katherine; Moreno-Rangel, Alejandro and Conroy Dalton, Ruth, eds. (2023) Working from home : we don't need more space, we need space. In: Future Home. Routledge, London, pp. 77-86. ISBN 9781003358244 (https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003358244-7)
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted labour markets globally between 2020 and 2022, and the legacy of lockdowns has arguably changed our spatial perception forever. Information and communication technology, such as the rise of online video calls, allowed people around the world to fit office work into their homes on an unprecedented scale. In this chapter, we explore new insights this experience offers and how can we design future homes appropriately for increasing norms of working from home (WFH) without increasing the environmental impact of our homes. To do so, the chapter begins with key challenges identified in literature on WFH during and after COVID-19 pandemic. Then we offer an architectural perspective to explain why the solution doesn't necessarily demand the creation of more space to accommodate office work at home and we articulate these alternative designs in relation to Social, Physical, Architectural Affordances, Context and Emotional considerations (SPACE).
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Rute Costa, Ana and Ellsworth-Krebs, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3098-1498; Moreno-Rangel, Alejandro and Conroy Dalton, Ruth-
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Item type: Book Section ID code: 90540 Dates: DateEvent22 December 2023PublishedNotes: This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Future Home: Trends, Innovations and Disruptors in Housing Design on 22 December 2023, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781032414676 Subjects: Fine Arts > Architecture
Social Sciences > Commerce > Business > Personnel management. Employment managementDepartment: Faculty of Engineering > Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 11 Sep 2024 11:14 Last modified: 11 Sep 2024 11:14 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/90540