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Moving between places
Work Hard Anywhere). Lastly, even the best preparation cannot cover all eventualities or changes in conditions, such as a place being fully booked or an event taking place. Knowledge about workarounds is can best be facilitated by the online community of nomadic workers as they recognize the challenges (e.g., nomadlist.com or DNX). Engaging with the online community will also facilitate making local connections to socialize with.
2.5.4 Conclusion
In conclusion, the current study provides insights into what the phenomenon ‘digital nomads’ entails. We presented three affordances of nomadic work that nomadic workers enact in order to create temporary workplaces where they can embed socially or conduct focused work; compared typical work locations with each other based on the prevalence of affordances to highlight their subjective differences. We discussed the findings in light of the current literature on contemporary work and provided several opportunities for future research. In doing so, this study provides the groundwork for theorizing work and workplaces as it becomes increasingly mobile and remote (Barley et al., 2017; Colbert et al., 2016; Orlikowski, 2016).
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Amanda Porter, Marlous Agterberg and Maura Soekijad for their feedback regarding earlier versions of this paper. We are thankful for the time that our interviewees have devoted to sharing their experiences with us. Also, we gratefully acknowledge that
Finally, we would like to thank reviewers at EGOS 2017 and AOM 2018 for their feedback,
especially Ingrid Erickson.
this work is
part of the research program New Ways of Working and Human Capital
Development with number 409-13-212, which is (partly) financed by the
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
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