The Workplace Reimagined
Accommodating Our Bodies and Our Lives

Proposes reimagining the workplace to account for the diversity, the reality, and the precarity of our lives and bodies.

Nicole Buonocore Porter (Author)

9781009347426, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 25 May 2023

250 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.458 kg

'Porter's comprehensively researched and clearly written explanation of why 'real workers' need accommodations exposes, through trenchant examples, how American business ignores workers' needs in favor of corporate profits. Her proposal to avoid 'special treatment stigma' by accommodating everyone should be taken seriously by legislators and employers alike.' Ann C. McGinley, Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

In the wake of the pandemic, many employers continue to allow their employees to work from home, but much of the workplace remains governed by strict structural norms such as shifts, schedules, attendance, and leave-of-absence policies that determine when and where work is performed. In The Workplace Reimagined, Nicole Buonocore Porter explores how these workplace norms marginalize people with disabilities and workers with caregiving responsibilities. Using COVID-19 as a lens to illustrate how entrenched workplace norms are often not inevitable or necessary, Porter theoretically and practically reconceptualizes the workplace to end the stigmatization of these employees and helps readers understand the value of accommodating all workers. The Workplace Reimagined is timely, eye-opening, and will help us realize a workplace in which we account for the reality, the precarity, and the diversity of all our lives and bodies.

1. Introducing a workplace reimagined
2. The caregiver conundrum
3. People with disabilities in the workplace
4. Intersections
5. The entrenchment of structural norms
6. Special treatment stigma
7. Theoretical and practical justifications for the reimagined workplace
8. The workplace reimagined Part I. Tackling Time Off
9. The workplace reimagined Part II. Accommodating Our Bodies and Our Lives.

Subject Areas: Employment & labour law [LNH], Personnel & human resources management [KJMV2]