Managing collapsed boundaries in global work

Abstract Global workers have long contended with the challenges of working across geographical, temporal, and cultural boundaries enabled by communication technologies. However, global work research has rarely intersected literature on work–home boundary management—which been brought to forefront due forced move remote during Covid-19 pandemic. Drawing a qualitative field study 55 in-depth interviews from large organization headquartered in Nordics, we found that drew sociomaterial affordances manage both through strategies support collapse. Although shift created collapse, it presented new spatiotemporal led unexpected benefits for work–life management. The findings implications work, future more broadly.