Remote work and reorganization of household infrastructure in the Global South: insights from the Indian information technology industry
研究印度IT从业者远程工作转型，揭示家庭在空间、时间、技术、监控和情感维度上的重组，提出家庭基础设施重组、组织基础设施家庭化等概念，挑战主流远程工作理论，凸显地理不平等。
Abstract Remote work scholarship treats work-from-home as individual adaptation, ignoring how households must reorganize to enable it. This individualistic bias proves particularly problematic for understanding Global South experiences where infrastructure deficits amplify household burdens. Examining 51 Indian IT professionals’ transition to remote work, we reveal how households reorganized across spatial, temporal, technical, surveillance, and emotional dimensions. We theorize “household infrastructure reorganization” as collective household labor enabling remote work, “domestication of organizational infrastructure” as cost transfer from organizations to households, and “infrastructural volatility” as chronic uncertainty shaping remote work. These findings challenge remote work scholarship and reveal geographic inequalities in remote work.