Collaborative Spaces at Work

4 Collaborative spaces in the material world

Toward a typology of space-time regulation artifacts

Matteo Rinaldini, Damiano Razzoli, Stefano Rodighiero, and Federico Montanari

Introduction

In the last decades, globalization and digitalization have coincided with (and enhanced) changes in the labor market that have affected the where and when of people’s work. These changes have resulted in an increasingly project-based and independent workforce, short-term contracts, and high levels of mobility (Boltanski & Chiapello, 2005; Cappelli & Keller, 2013). In these new working conditions, the disconnection between work activities and traditional work environments has contributed to changing the spatial distribution of work toward a distributed mode ...