TY - BOOK AU - Gregg,Melissa TI - Work's intimacy SN - 0745650279 AV - HD6955 .G744 2011 U1 - 331.256 23 PY - 2011/// CY - Cambridge, U.K., Malden, Mass. PB - Polity Press KW - Work environment KW - Social aspects KW - Employees KW - Effect of technological innovations on KW - Technological innovations KW - Work-life balance KW - Quality of work life N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-198) and index; Pt. I. The connectivity imperative: business responses to new media -- Selling the flexible workplace: the creative economy and new media fetishism -- Working from home: the mobile office and the seduction of convenience -- Part-time precarity: discount labor and contract careers -- pt. II. Getting intimate: Online culture and the rise of social networking -- To CC: or not to CC: teamwork in office culture -- Facebook friends: security blankets and career mobility -- Know your product: online branding and the evacuation of friendship -- pt. III. Looking for love in the networked household -- Home offices and remote parents: family dynamics in online households -- Long hours, high bandwidth: negotiating domesticity and distance -- On call -- Conclusion: Labor politics in an online workplace--the lovers vs. the loveless ER -