Lecture 2 Flashcards

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What are the advantages and disadvantages of the new way of working?

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Benefits:

  • Increased autonomy
  • Increased satisfaction
  • Reduced stress
  • Peaceful family life

Drawbacks:

  • Social and professional isolation
  • Increased stress due to high responsibility
  • Constant connectivity to work
  • Loss of structure
  • Work-life balance problems (blurring boundaries)
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What is the connectivity paradox?

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Connectivity paradox: Technologies to enable teleworking lead to undermining the reasons and goals of teleworking

Workers increase distance by:
•  Disconnecting
•  Disguising work activities

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HOW DOES PROXIMITY MATTER?

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•  Social facilitation effect 
•  Social pressure 
•  Mere exposure effect:
-  Better performance (of easy tasks) 
- Higher involvement  
- Liking and group identity 
-  Induced cooperation 
-  Conformity
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What is privacy?

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Privacy: extent to which you can control boundaries of conversation

The physical requirements of private informal interaction: spaces with visibility and acoustics in mind

Balance Privacy with Proximity (too much proximity reduces privacy and v.v.)
Alcove: ideal space for private informal interaction

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What is propinquity?

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Propinquity: ‘proximity’ when spaces bring people physically closer to each other

  •   Social proximity: close to the workspaces of other people
  •   Functional proximity: close access to shared resources such as entrances, restrooms, stairwells, elevators, photocopiers, coffee machines, and the water cooler.
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What is social designation?

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Social designation: (or ‘permission’) feeling legitimate to go there and feel accepted to stop talking when you want to

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What is proximity?

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Proximity refers to the physical distance between people measured in units such as meters.

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What are affordances?

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Action possibilities and opportunities that emerge from actors engaging with a technology. The properties and qualities of technologies are common but you cannot predict how technologies will be used due to its affordances

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