Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Understanding What People Do
I spend a lot of time thinking about what people do for a living, so I was fascinated by a recent article in the New York Times that details how, by working from home, many people are finally coming to understand the jobs of the people they share living spaces with (Lindsay Mannering, “Couples Have a Working-From-Home Revelation: That’s What You Do All Day?, March 25, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/style/couples-working-from-home-coronavirus.html?searchResultPosition=1). In the article, Mannering discusses learning more about a “worker” in a relaxed tone that is vastly different from the one often found in programming-related investigations and other research endeavors: “Maybe some of you are staring at your partner right now and wondering what they’re working on, or how they could possibly prefer Microsoft Teams to Slack. Or maybe you’re just sitting there baffled, wondering how it is that you ended up partnered with someone who says ‘Let’s put a pin in …
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