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By Daniel B. Cornfield, Karen E. Campbell, Holly J. McCammon

Working in Restructured offices addresses contradictory impacts in modern office restructuring, its impression on employees' lives, and the path and nature of destiny adjustments within the place of work. This genuine selection of sociological suggestion and examine includes earlier works in Work and Occupations and a few commissioned in particular for this e-book to target the character, factors, and effects of office restructuring.

 

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It’s a team environment, not one individual running the show here. Another interviewee, a department manager responsible for 350 people, including 12 supervisors and a workforce that was about 60% temporary workers, identified the disjuncture between tempwork as corporate-level management envisioned it and tempwork as he experienced it in CompTech’s traditional work system. Expressing frustration about top management’s prohibition on hiring permanent workers, he said, [Top management] doesn’t deal with it.

2 All workers and work settings were nonunionized. Of the formal interviews with 25 entry-level workers, 12 were with women and 13 were with men. Three of the entry-level workers were Hispanic and the rest were White, although I talked with 5 additional workers of color (2 African Americans and 3 Hispanics) informally. On only one line—the deskilled line—did I observe a significant number of people of color; in other areas, their numbers were small. The Whiteness, and especially the male Whiteness, of the temporary labor force seemed to me to be a significant finding, as it suggests that temporary work here is not simply a ghetto for the most marginalized members of the labor force.

In this way, managers reinforced the paternalistic culture for temporary workers that mirrored the culture of the permanent workers. 6 Nearly all the temporary workers I interviewed had attended one or more of these segregated events. Even though such events did little to dispel the fact that temporaries were on the margins with respect to their employment status, they reinforced temps’ view that CompTech was a good employer and promoted a work culture of which they wished to become permanent members.

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