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While the literature in relation to managing the work-nonwork boundary retains a strong focus on the consistent use of segmenting or integrating boundary management practices, recent studies indicate that individuals’ behaviours are often inconsistent. To add to this emerging strand of research, this article is set in the context of flexible working to examine how knowledge workers use time, space and objects to demarcate the work-nonwork boundary. The analysis identifies three configurations of boundary management practices with differing degrees of inconsistency in the use of time, space and objects. Its contribution is three-fold: (1) it provides an original, systematic exploration of boundary management practices that do not represent consistency; (2) it creates a framework within which differing degrees of inconsistency in people’s boundary management practices can be observed; and (3) it demonstrates new and crucial differences between distinct inconsistent approaches to demarcating the work-nonwork boundary.
Author(s): Reissner SC, Izak M, Hislop D
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Work, Employment and Society
Year: 2021
Volume: 35
Issue: 2
Pages: 296-315
Print publication date: 01/04/2021
Online publication date: 23/12/2020
Acceptance date: 02/08/2020
Date deposited: 07/08/2020
ISSN (print): 0950-0170
ISSN (electronic): 1469-8722
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017020968375
DOI: 10.1177/0950017020968375
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