When Time Falls Apart: Re-centring human time in organisations through the lived experience of waiting

Research on the lived experience of organisational temporalities has thus far overlooked potential significance what happens in interstices that arise between temporal structures. To address this gap, we examined how individuals three occupations experienced one such interstitial form: waiting. Our analysis waiting time uncovers two distinct and overarching macro-structures govern workers use organisations: intensified-organisational – speeded-up, intensified temporality modern forms work organisation adaptive-organic, represents natural human temporalities. Waiting emerges as a paradoxical which simultaneously welcome yet seek to eliminate; stands outside structures serves reinforce them. From perspective, furnishes moments during can be ‘undone’, affording us micro-moments reclaim re-centre organisations time.