The times and temporalities of homebased telework

Drawing on an empirical investigation situated in 25 households of professional managers, who worked regularly at home, this article explores how internalised time discipline is evoked, appropriated and challenged through and in homebased telework. The notion of clocktime is opposed with the notion of tasktime and it is shown how both temporalities inform the organisation of paid and unpaid work. It is shown that in some households the simultaneous copresence of conceptually different temporalities led to an increasing bureaucratisation of time as boundaries between work and the household had to be maintained and protected. In other households such copresence resulted in the emergence of more taskbased approaches to the coordination of all activity and more elastic temporal boundaries drawn around them.