Let’s Eat Together! Rhythmanalysis of commensality and critique of everyday life in organizations
通过对巴黎一家大型银行进行长期田野观察，分析灵活办公环境下共餐（一起吃饭）的节奏，揭示其如何被组织用来塑造员工社区感，并探讨由此产生的异化与去异化过程。
This article offers a rhythmanalysis of commensality, the practice of eating together, in the context of flexible offices, as organizations carefully arrange time-space to engage employees and invoke specific senses of community. Drawing on a longitudinal ethnographic field study of a major banking organization in Paris, multiple commensality rhythms were found that coalesce and are sutured into rhythms of order and dressage, rhythms of harmony, and rhythms of disturbance and disharmony. These findings offer an open-ended and performative understanding of commensality, which opens up to a triadic view of the organizational everyday and to a critique of everyday life in organizations that integrates rhythms of alienation, disalienation, and new alienation.