ABSTRACT
The growing diffusion of business travels in the world of work, beyond the genuinely ‘mobile professions,’ is a symptom of growing mobility requirements. On the basis of a qualitative study, the paper discusses mobility experience, strains, and coping strategies on different levels of space and time. We compared two seemingly very different settings of mobility—commuting of semiskilled construction workers on the one hand, and business trips of highly qualified engineers on the other—and reveal some surprising similarities.
