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General discussion
Overall, I demonstrated that physical place matters for digital work. The ways in which digital nomads enacted affordances to create temporary stability of work provided valuable insights for working in hyperspatial settings. Then I focused on the change of workplace configurations in a semispatial setting, which revealed the negative implications of remoteness for peripheral work relationships. And lastly, I addressed the link between workplace transparency and innovative work behaviors in a sedentary setting, where I found a positive relationship moderated by remote work I want to emphasize that organizations and workers need to make very deliberate choices about the their way of working including where to work. I have discussed the need to redesign one’s way of working, presented some alternative workplaces to the office and addressed the role of place for relationships. My hope is that by making more deliberate choices about the where alongside how we work, we can, ultimately achieve more flexibility for workers and companies. Taken together, I hope my research inspires researches to take place into account when studying digital workers and that it provides guidance to practitioners interested in remote work.
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