“That was easier when we were sitting together”: Managerial work as ordering with place
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article explores how the changes brought about by flexible offices affect managerial work, focusing on middle managers. Our study of three organizations that have adopted flexible offices reveals that middle managers face increased responsibilities and additional activities after such adoption, highlighting an intensification of their work. Combining the practice perspective with the theoretical lens of place and its concepts of trajectory and throwntogetherness, we put forward a definition of managerial work as situated ordering that is an ongoing sociomaterial accomplishment. We identify four new managerial practices required in flexible offices to achieve situated ordering, namely materializing new homes, sustaining closeness, reproducing alignment and keeping performance under control. Taken together, these practices reveal how managerial work changes when its place is altered, elucidating why such alterations create more work for managers. In doing so, our study addresses why and how place matters for managerial work.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it