Jetten, Patrick (2021) Perceptions of people working from home due to the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions on the meaning of 'home'. Pre-master thesis.
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Abstract
The worldwide pandemic called Covid-19 caused adjustments in people’s everyday life. Some people had to work from home instead of the office, the normal workplace. The question posed in this research: How do people perceive the meaning of ‘home’, now that they are working from home due to the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions? The aim that goes with the research is to examine the experiences that people have on ‘home’ now they are working from here due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The concepts of the meaning of home were used to examine the experiences in the research. Regarding components of the concepts including the personal-, social- and material home that are divided into parts resembling memories, experiences, transition and home environment. To gather the participant’s experiences for the data collection, eight semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted, this was part of the qualitative research method. An inductive coding book was used to stockpile all important experiences concerning the research. Those individual experiences were converted into codes in the coding tree. The inductive themes feeling & emotions and feeling of control with clear difference between participants were identified. The results display that people needed to adapt to the new working environment in the home and that it did influence their perception of home. The perception of home is studied with the components: the social, material and personal home. Since people had a strong positive perception of their home, the entry of their work in the home environment did change this meaning moderately. Particularly regarding the social home where people experienced change in feelings and emotions. Also in the material home, the literal change in the workspace and work material being at home, but this place still is perceived as a pleasant environment. This research contributes to the theory development of the meaning of home and is societal relevant for numerous people working from home.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Pre-master) |
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| Degree programme: | Cultural Geography |
| Supervisor: | Oosterhoff, A.T. |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Aug 2021 11:57 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Aug 2021 11:57 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3634 |
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