Home sweet home-office?: uma análise sobre tempo-espaço de vida-trabalho no serviço público

Abstract

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the federal government launched a regulation that allows the adoption of telecommuting, home-office and distance working for public administration workers, even without registration or change in the labor contract. With this, this new way of working was implemented in an emergency way, and along with it come challenges such as those related to the management of the period and work environment and personal life. In this sense, the general objective of this article is to analyze the time-space of life-work at home-office of public sector employees and outsourced workers in the Covid-19 pandemic period. A qualitative and exploratory research approach was carried out, with online interviews with nine career public servants and outsourced employees of the federal public service who develop administrative functions. The results showed that sharing the home and family space with the work space makes it difficult to manage the time to perform the work tasks. Even so, there are advantages of working at home-office, such as being able to spend more time with the family and being able to dedicate to other activities. The future perspectives of continuing home-office vary according to the family structure - participants who share a home prefer a return to face-to-face work and those who live alone feel comfortable with continuing home-office as long as there is regulation and investment on the part of the public administration.