Sustained knowledge work and thinking time amongst academics: gender and working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Article Title | Sustained knowledge work and thinking time amongst academics: gender and working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic |
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ERA Journal ID | 18456 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Peetz, David (Author), Baird, Marian (Author), Banerjee, Rupa (Author), Bartkiw, Tim (Author), Campbell, Shelagh (Author), Charlesworth, Sara (Author), Coles, Amanda (Author), Cooper, Rae (Author), Foster, Jason (Author), Galea, Natalie (Author), de la Harpe, Barbara (Author), Leighton, Catherine (Author), Lynch, Bernadette (Author), Pike, Kelly (Author), Pyman, Amanda (Author), Ramia, Ioana (Author), Ressia, Susan (Author), Samani, Mojan Naisani (Author), Southey, Kim (Author), Strachan, Glenda (Author), To, March (Author), Troup, Carolyn (Author), Walsworth, Scott (Author), Werth, Shalene (Author) and Weststar, Johanna (Author) |
Journal Title | Labour and Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work |
Journal Citation | 32 (1), pp. 72-92 |
Number of Pages | 21 |
Year | 2022 |
Place of Publication | Australia |
ISSN | 1030-1763 |
2325-5676 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/10301763.2022.2034092 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10301763.2022.2034092 |
Abstract | The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a migration of workforces to work from home. A key issue for academics was the implications for the ability to carve out 'thinking time' to engage in what we term sustained knowledge work, the type of work essential for producing research. We administered an employee survey to academics from seven Australian and seven Canadian Universities, receiving over 3000 responses. We report on both quantitative and qualitative findings from the survey, with a particular emphasis on the latter. The two countries displayed broadly similar patterns in responses, but these patterns were gendered in specific ways. We distinguished between episodic and sustained knowledge work and found the shift of the location for sustained knowledge work from the workplace to the home affected academics unevenly, with disproportionate negative impacts on women. There are implications for all knowledge workers: while gendered, domestic norms continue to exist, the sustained knowledge work that is critical to career advancement can become especially problematic for women knowledge workers. |
Keywords | knowledge work, working from home, remote working, gender, universities |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 350504. Industrial and employee relations |
350507. Workplace wellbeing and quality of working life | |
350503. Human resources management | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | Griffith University |
University of Sydney | |
Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada | |
University of Regina, Canada | |
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) | |
Deakin University | |
Athabasca University, Canada | |
University of Melbourne | |
Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts | |
University of Western Australia | |
School of Business | |
York University, Canada | |
Australian Education Research Organisation, Australia | |
McMaster University, Canada | |
University of Saskatchewan, Canada | |
University of Western Ontario, Canada | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q757q/sustained-knowledge-work-and-thinking-time-amongst-academics-gender-and-working-from-home-during-the-covid-19-pandemic
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