Beyond the status quo of remote work : how workers gain and lose status in their organizations amid shifts to remote work
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Over the years, there has been a pervasive stigma associated with remote work. Remote workers are typically conferred low status in their organizations and are afforded fewer resources than their "on-site" colleagues. Yet, the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped new conceptions of remote workers and the viability of remote work for the future. As more and more organizations are adopting remote and hybrid work and as remote workers are no longer a minority group in many organizations, remote workers seem to have gained relative status in their organizations. There is a new understanding that remote work is "real" work and workers seem to have more authority than ever before to adopt remote work arrangements. Yet we have minimal understanding of the microdynamics underlying how these shifts related to remote workers' status in organizations are playing out. This dissertation draws on ethnographic methods to examine the status-ridden processes through which workers come to be remote workers and hybrid workers (or fail to become such). It demonstrates how these status dynamics play out through the materiality of technology and through high-status actors' "status contests" and theorizes the less visible ways in which remote workers are gaining and losing status in their organizations. This two-chapter dissertation contributes to research on occupational jurisdiction, the sociology of classification, and remote work, while also offering practical implications aimed at helping organizational leaders make strategic decisions about remote and hybrid work moving forward.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Hinds, Rebecca Anne |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Karunakaran, Arvind |
| Degree supervisor | Valentine, Melissa (Melissa A.) |
| Thesis advisor | Karunakaran, Arvind |
| Thesis advisor | Valentine, Melissa (Melissa A.) |
| Thesis advisor | Sutton, Robert I |
| Degree committee member | Sutton, Robert I |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Management Science and Engineering |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Rebecca Anne Hinds. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Management Science and Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/jb146wk7580 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Rebecca Anne Hinds
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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