Learning under lockdown
Sensing, feeling and learning to work from home
The sudden move to working from home during COVID lockdowns was not just a change of location. It was a sensory, affective, and practical learning process.
What the paper argues
The article uses collaborative autoethnography to examine how people learned to work from home under lockdown conditions. It treats remote work as an embodied adjustment involving space, sound, routines, attention, affect, and the blurred boundaries between work and domestic life.
Rather than asking only whether remote work is efficient, the paper asks how people sense, feel, and learn their way into new working arrangements when organisational routines are abruptly displaced.
Core contribution: Remote work is learned through embodied adjustment, not only through technology adoption or policy change
Why it matters
The paper helps explain why hybrid and remote work cannot be understood as a simple choice between office and home. Work arrangements are lived through bodies, atmospheres, households, screens, and routines that people have to actively reorganise.
Work as lived practice
This paper connects the coworking and remote-work threads: how work is shaped by atmospheres, bodies, technologies, and the practical routines through which people learn to inhabit new arrangements.
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