Newsletter and web CGS: alternative data sources for research of temporal and spatial flexibility of working of Czech geographers
Abstract
Among the most significant changes in the nature of labour in past decades is an increasing rate of temporal and spatial flexibility of work. These changes give rise to the need to review the current methodological insights into the relationships between home and work in spatial, temporal and functional terms.
This flexible relationship, represented also as an adaptation strategy, is largely determined by both the inner subjective preference of individuals representing labour forces, which leads them to delimit spatial and temporal borders between professional and personal life on one hand, and external labour market pressure on the other. The article offers a discussion of new possible data sources for measuring spatial and temporal flexibility of work through the case study of Czech geographers.
Although alternative data sources from the web and Newsletter of Czech Geographical Society used in this case study cannot fully describe such a complex phenomenon as work-related flexibility, it can help us to ascertain the significant conclusions about changes in the nature of work of Czech geographers. The aim of this article is to discuss forms of adaptation strategies (e.g. temporal and spatial flexibility of work) which are linked to the changes in the nature of work and its utilization of time and space.