ARBEJDE ER LIVET: Refleksioner over „det grænseløse arbejde“

Resumé

The boundaries between working life and other life are shifting. The post-modern

employee has become personally responsible for organising his own work in both time

and space. This may lead to the experience of increased mobility between working life

and other life. Flexible working hours, as well as an overlap between working activities

and leisure activities, veil the distinction between working time and other time. Furthermore,

individuals experience time differently, connecting time not only to linearity but

also to events and tasks at work. The physical frames of work are also undergoing

dramatic changes. New technologies enable the individual to carry out his job anywhere

and at any time. Work is not only performed at specific workplaces, but also at home,

in trains, planes - almost anywhere. As such tasks, rather than time and place, have

become the organising principle when it comes to the relationship between working

life and other life. And task-orientation makes it difficult to distinguish between the

categories “working life” and “other life” in practice. In fact, work is not just a part of

life. Work becomes life, just as life becomes work.