3: Public Employees and Remote Working: Making Sense of Identity and the (New) Workplace

1. Introduction – 2. Workplace, Work–Life Balance and Employee Well-Being – 3. Research Design – 4. Reorganiszing Workplaces During the COVID-19 Lockdown: Effects on Public Employees'’Identities, Work and Private Lives – 5. Post-Lockdown Experiences of Smart Working – 6. Understanding Smart Working, Its Positive and Negative Aspects – 7. Smart Working as a Regime? – 8. Final Remarks – 9. References

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many people working from home to preserve health and many countries all over the world opted for the application of strict lockdowns that affected both work and private lives (Grizzle, Goodin, & Robinson, 2020; Schuster et al., 2020; Yang, 2020).