Using interviews from the recent National Archives of Singapore’s COVID-19 collection, this artic... more Using interviews from the recent National Archives of Singapore’s COVID-19 collection, this article seeks to explore how workers in Singapore, particularly educators, adapted to the remote working arrangements imposed on them during the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021. It concludes that online activity in those years somewhat limited the type and degree of intimacy that is usually formed in person, crucial to certain occupations. However, this need not mean the dismissal of online work altogether, but rather opens creative possibilities of how work-relevant intimacies could be imagined and cultivated.
Using interviews from the recent National Archives of Singapore’s COVID-19 collection, this artic... more Using interviews from the recent National Archives of Singapore’s COVID-19 collection, this article seeks to explore how workers in Singapore, particularly educators, adapted to the remote working arrangements imposed on them during the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021. It concludes that online activity in those years somewhat limited the type and degree of intimacy that is usually formed in person, crucial to certain occupations. However, this need not mean the dismissal of online work altogether, but rather opens creative possibilities of how work-relevant intimacies could be imagined and cultivated.
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