Marie Hasbi

• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

This article examines the change process of implementing hybrid workspace within organizations. Hybrid workspace involves employees working from multiple locations and has become an important topic during and after the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. This study aims to better understand the tensions emerging in the change process towards hybrid...

This paper studies micro-processes of organizational change when introducing the concept of hybrid workspace, which is the working of employees at multiple workplaces. The topic has received much attention during and after the Covid pandemic. Drawing on a longitudinal qualitative study of a major European bank in Paris, we foreground the introducti...

Academic interests in the concept of placelessness, the weakening of significance in places, has grown as post-COVID-19 workplaces are becoming more mobile and are increasingly situated in multiple places. Despite calls from scholars, little is known about how employees use organisational space and sense of place as resources for identity work. Thi...

This paper draws attention to commensality -eating and drinking in the presence of others- and the spatial production of sharing food at work. We propose to add a socio-spatial perspective to the research agenda on the triad of food, work, and organization. In particular, we conceptually and empirically discuss the potential for understanding comme...

As part of popular new kinds of activity-based working, many companies seek to implement so-called clean-desk policies, in which users have to empty their desk after completing a task, so that other workers can feel free to use this desk. Following Henri Lefebvre’s discussion of ‘Dressage’ in the context of Rhytm-analysis (Lefebvre 2004 [1992]), we...

It was a hot, sunny day at the Academy of Management's Annual Meeting in Chicago earlier this year. Delegates were invited to participate in a walking conversation about the future of academic publishing. The question of the promenade was clear but complex: what does it mean to publish in today's world? Here, we summarise this event and offer three...

This second RGCS white paper is focused on a new research practice and method co-designed by members of our network: Open Walked Event-Based Experimentations (OWEE). The protocol consists in a free, several day long learning expedition in a city, which brings together different stakeholders (academics, entrepreneurs, activists, makers, journalists,...

Cette recherche s'inscrit dans les travaux s'intéressant à un phénomène émergent, les espaces collaboratifs. Notre travail se focalise sur les espaces de coworking. Il a pour objectif de comprendre le sens et les valeurs véhiculés par leur discours. Ces espaces sont souvent associés à des communautés véhiculant des valeurs partagées. Mais ils sont...

Final RGCS Paper (Omega) about collaborative communities (coworkers, makers & hackers) and their political role in our cities. Based on a set of a collaborative workshops in three countries (France, Canada and UK). Published in December 2016 just before the First RGCS Symposium.