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Moving between places
 place moves from the background to the foreground in location- independent work. A final contribution of the paper is to the discussion of how modern workplaces blur the spatial boundary between work and leisure (Cousins & Robey, 2015; Prasopoulou et al., 2017). It seems that for digital nomads, the distinction between work and life is irrelevant.
In the rest of the paper, we adhere to the following structure. First, we situate the current study in the literature on digital nomads, contemporary workplaces, and the theory of affordances. We discuss how the affordance lens became our way to understand this emerging way of working. Second, we describe our methods of data collection and analysis. Third, we use the results section to zoom in on the affordances of nomadic work in the temporary workplaces, as well as the variations of physical environments. Lastly, we end by discussing the theoretical contributions to the field of digital nomads and contemporary workplaces.
2.2 Theoretical background
The physical places and digital spaces where we conduct work are crucial to our understanding of how we work. The fascination amongst scholars about how the increasing speed of technological innovation affects work (Barley et al., 2017; Colbert et al., 2016) intersects with the ‘spatial turn’ in organization studies (de Vaujany & Mitev, 2013; Kitchin & Hubbard, 2016; Van Marrewijk & Yanow, 2017; Weinfurtner & Seidl, 2019). Over the years, a wealth of literature has addressed the importance of the physical environment in organizations, as several reviews in the field of organization and management attest (Ashkanasy et al., 2014; Davis et al., 2011; Davis, 1984; Elsbach & Pratt, 2007). Hereafter, we will provide a brief review of three literature streams – contemporary workplaces, digital nomads, theory of affordances – to provide a starting point for our study.
2.2.1 Contemporary workplaces
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