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General discussion
Table 5.1 Spatiality, challenge, findings and future research
Degree of spatiality
Key challenge
Hyperspatial Stability: to stay productive in a hyperspatial setting, workers need to deal with uncertainty. The continuous change in locations and people puts the worker in new spatial and social settings, which makes stability of work
settings a challenge.
Semispatial Coordination: in semispatial settings, people have considerable freedom of movement. The asynchronicity of people’s movement creates the challenge to coordinate people across digital and physical places in order to maintain work relationships.
Sedentary Interaction: while the physical environments are dynamic in semispatial and hyperspatial settings, they are stable in sedentary settings. The challenge here is to interact effectively with others to share and implement ideas. This is complicated by sometimes being remote from
colleagues.
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