REMOTE OR MOBILE WORK AS AN OCCASION FOR (RE)STRUCTURING PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL IDENTITIES

Writing from the perspective of both a remote and mobile worker, I explore the ways in which regular and frequent physical relocation challenges and redefines my relationship to home and work. This article explores questions surrounding how an employee who is "remote" is seen by others, including peers and senior management, and the role remote workers play in the culture of the firm. This article also discusses strategies to cope with the sense of fragmentation that results from constant relocations because of travel among work, home, and other locations, in other words, how to bridge the "there-notthere," "seen-notseen" disjunctures that frame the experience of being a remote worker.