Utilizing the skills and availability of other individuals.

Using Other People

Using technology to facilitate boundary work.

Example: setting timers as reminders

Leveraging Technology

Prioritizing seemingly urgent and important work and home demands.

Invoking Triage

Choosing which specific aspects of work-home life will/will not be permeable and deciding which parts of the home and work to keep overlapped. 

Allowing Differential Permeability

Recreating the on-site office environment, routines, and overall feel of “going to work.” 

Examples: 
- getting dressed in “real clothes” when working and putting on pajamas at the end of the workday
- going outside after work and then coming back home to feel like coming home from the office

Emulating Office Routine

- Using other people
- Leveraging technology
- Invoking triage
- Allowing differential permeability
- Emulating office routine

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- Behavioral tactics: involve using other people, such as getting help from others
- Temporal tactics: involve controlling work time, such as by blocking off segments of time for work and nonwork
- Physical tactics: adapting physical boundaries, such as by manipulating physical space
- Communicative tactics: setting expectations, such as by confronting people who violate boundaries

Four Categories of Boundary Management Tactics

Allen, T. D., Merlo, K., Lawrence, R. C., Slutsky, J., &amp; Gray, C. E. (2021). Boundary Management and work‐nonwork balance while working from home. Applied Psychology, 70(1), 60–84. https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12300

Boundary Management and Work-Nonwork Balance While Working from Home

Categories for Segmentation Strategies: Behavioral Tactics

- Controlling work time
- Finding respite
- Purposefully disconnecting
- Reducing work and home role overlap

Categories for Segmentation Strategies: Temporal Tactics

- Adapting physical and psychological boundaries
- Manipulating physical space
- Managing physical artifacts

Categories for Segmentation Strategies: Physical Tactics

- Setting expectations
- Confronting violators

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