RISULTATI RICERCA

Quando ci apriamo all’esperienza degli altri, portiamo con noi il nostro corpo e, così facendo, siamo in grado di entrare in risonanza non solo a livello intellettuale, ma anche empatico con le esperienze e le espressioni dell’altro (che ci vengono comunicate sia verbalmente che non verbalmente). Rimanendo fedeli ai nostri fondamenti fenomenologici (Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty e Levinas), parleremo di come prestare attenzione agli altri all’interno dello “scambio” relazionale e rifletteremo su quali siano, esattamente, le questioni date dall’esperienza a cui Husserl ci ha invitato a tornare. Il nostro interesse parte dall’esperienza “in prima persona” dell’altro, ma poiché non possiamo accedervi direttamente, dobbiamo affidarci alla risonanza che sentiamo dentro, nei nostri corpi vissuti, quando una persona si rivolge a noi, sia con le parole che con i gesti.

In a world marked by acceleration and dispersion, the aesthetic experience of wonder risks being lost. This article explores how gestalt therapy – particularly as developed within the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy (NYIGT) – offers a clinical and philosophical response to this fragmentation. Drawing on field theory, the temporal sequence of contacting, and the aesthetic of perception, I propose that wonder arises when we linger with experience, allowing novelty to emerge from the ordinary. Through metaphor, clinical reflection, and phenomenological inquiry, I argue that contacting is not merely a therapeutic technique but a rhythmic, aesthetic process that reenchants our engagement with the world. Wonder, like a rainbow, beckons us forward – not as a goal to be grasped, but as a promise sensed in the momenta of contacting.

La psicoterapia della Gestalt e la psicologia della Gestalt sono accomunate dal metodo fenomenologico e dall’epistemologia estetica ed esperienziale; soprattutto, dal principio per cui la conoscenza avviene attraverso il canale sensoriale. La percezione della realtà rispecchia l’intenzionalità di contatto, attraverso la ricerca di un focus di interesse (Polster, 1988). Guardare l’immagine con intenzionalità è un atto creativo. Questo principio è stato sottolineato da Roland Barthes (1980) in La camera chiara – il suo saggio sull’analisi fotografica – quando espone il concetto di punctum (il dettaglio che colpisce chi guarda l’immagine, tanto da suscitare in lui una emozione che connota l’intera figura).

Questa dinamica avviene anche durante l’esperienza clinica, quando il terapeuta si sofferma su ciò che suscita il suo interesse mentre osserva il paziente. L’uso del punctum, quindi, si configura come un efficace strumento di lavoro clinico, in linea con gli sviluppi teorici del modello che valorizzano il sentire reciproco della situazione terapeutica.

In recent years, remote work has become increasingly widespread. Many companies have adopted hybrid work models, blending in-office and remote work. While much has been written about remote work adoption during and after the pandemic, there is still a limited understanding of how organisations are implementing this working modality. The article aims to fill this gap by identifying the hybrid work models that have emerged in the post-pandemic period. It proposes an analytical framework that highlights the key characteristics of these models. The research is based on a survey of 480 companies in Lombardy, along with case studies derived from qualitative interviews and focus groups involving Human Resource Managers from 19 large companies in Milan. The study identifies four hybrid work models based on two variables: the intensity and flexibility of remote work. The models are the following: Intense and Flexible, Intense and Bounded, Moderate and Bounded, and Moderate and Flexible. In addition to describing how the four models are structured, the article also explores the factors that influence a company's choice of one model over another, the uncertain nature of the constraints posed by the different level of teleworkability, and the implications in terms of recruitment and retention strategies.

This study explores how remote work is interpreted and practiced in Italian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), drawing on 90 semi-structured interviews across 30 organizations. Adopting an exploratory and interpretive approach, the study investigates how employees experience remote work in relation to well-being, spatial flexibility, and non-remoteable tasks. Rather than a uniform model, remote work in SMEs emerges as a situated and negotiated practice, shaped by organizational culture, life trajectories, and structural constraints. The findings identify three interrelated patterns: remote work as a fragile resource for well-being, spatial autonomy as both empowerment and pressure, and hybrid models developed through relational adaptation rather than formal strategy. The study contributes to current debates on remote work by highlighting how flexibility and autonomy in SMEs are contingent upon informal practices, interpersonal trust, and uneven domestic infrastructures. The paper concludes with implications for policy and organizational practice, calling for context-sensitive approaches to remote and hybrid work that recognize the diversity of roles, biographies, and spatial arrangements.

The article contributes to the ongoing debate on the evolving spatiotemporal dynamics of organizational structures, work practices and relationships, and workplace interactions. It explores to what extent technology – and the associated spatiotemporal restructuring of organized work – is re-shaping the forms of managerial control within employment. These forms are stylized into three ideal types, which have been previously conceptualized drawing on an extensive body of qualitative and quantitative organizational research. Using data from the 2015 and 2021 European Working Conditions Surveys, the analysis reveals that digital remote work has significantly accelerated the emergence of “controlled autonomy” as a form of managerial control. However, this impact is less pronounced compared to that of digitalization and a broader trend that has been redefining employment for several decades. Moreover, the study finds that digital remote work increases the tension between work and other life domains, highlighting the ambivalent nature of controlled autonomy. The article concludes by suggesting that controlled autonomy may become the dominant form of managerial control in the long term, though it questions whether this trend will truly enhance employment.

In the face of an increasing variety of spatio-temporal patterns of work and organisations, we seek to draw attention to time and space in this issue. In our introduction, we argue that they have become constitutive of the ongoing transformations of work in its entanglements with social reproduction, and of the evolving nature of organisations themselves – practices, structures, and organisational cultures. After presenting the framework underpinning this special issue and providing an overview of the contributions it comprises – five articles, three invited contributions from leading international scholars and two book reviews – we propose our own analysis of four interrelated tensions that run through the contributions to the special issue. These tensions concern the autonomy–control dialectic, the ambivalent role of technologies, subjectivities and the reconfiguration of agency, and the work–life tensions that unfold across spatio-temporal arrangements. We highlight how each tension simultaneously shapes and is shaped by contemporary spatio-temporal patterns of work and organisation. Finally, we outline possible avenues for future research that may foster novel theoretical and methodological frameworks capable of better grasping the ongoing metamorphoses of work, organisation, space, and temporality, along with the key tensions that underpin them.