Open AccessBodywork and Productivity in Workplace Ethnography
Author(s) -
LADNER SAM
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
ethnographic praxis in industry conference proceedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1559-8918
pISSN - 1559-890X
DOI - 10.1111/1559-8918.01008
Subject(s) - bodywork , productivity , ethnography , work (physics) , sociology , public relations , engineering , political science , medicine , economic growth , economics , mechanical engineering , alternative medicine , pathology , anthropology
Office workers still rely on their bodies to communicate with each other, despite many decades of technology use. This Pecha Kucha explores how and in what ways office work involves people's bodies and this “bodywork” plays in productivity. I argue that technology is now able to emulate some effects of bodywork.