Emergent time‐spaces of working from home: Lessons from pandemic geographies

The COVID-19 pandemic and consequent health regulations compelled office-based knowledge workers to work from home (WFH) en masse. Government employer directives WFH disrupted common norms of commuting city office spaces reshaped the geographies work, with potentially lasting implications. Pandemic-induced cohabitation work-space home-space saw more navigating performance paid labour in produce new relational home, worker. This paper provides a window on lived experiences sizeable cohort displaced Sydney’s CBD undertake Illawarra region during pandemic. We explore unfolding by drawing together feminist economic geography literatures. Our analysis reveals emergent variegated time-spaces that emerged as rhythms routines shaped vice versa. also differentiated agency embodied orchestrate configurations WFH, gender socio-materialities size, tenure, life-cycle stage. conclude out important lines for further research “hybrid work” evidently becomes entrenched post-COVID.