Browsing by Subject "rytmit"

Objectives Due to the COVID-19pandemic that is rampant in the world, remote work has become the focus of working life in the spring of 2020. Many people have had to rebuild their everyday working life while planning new practices of working. This study aims to examine what kinds of rhythms there are in remote workers’ everyday life. It also studies how different dimensions of function interlace in the everyday life of remote workers. The theoretical framework of this study consists of different studies of time-use, the most important being the four kinds of time by Dagfinn Ås. This study focuses on how remote workers’ work, housework and free time interlace. Methods This study was a qualitative study. I used a time-use diary as a data collection method. The participants were selected randomly and they filled in the diary for three days. I collected the data working together with the National institution of occupational health and the workers’ employer. I contacted the participants via e-mail and they could take part in this study in their own initiative. This study had seven participants. I analyzed the data first by dividing the participants in different worker types. In addition to this I grouped different functions I found in the diaries based on the four kinds of times by Ås and studied the interlacing and overlapping of these functions. Results Out of the workers that participated in this study I could clearly find two worker types, daytime workers and night time workers. Families and spouses can fit their rhythms easier together while working during the daytime. There were interlacing of work, housework and freetime in every participants everyday life. Six out of seven workers did housework on their work breaks. Especially chores involving cooking and laundry where represented in the data during working hours. It can also be said that interlacing house work with the working day opens up time during free time for relaxation, socializing and for recovery.