ABSTRACT

This chapter explores the processes which make spatial corporate mobility a strategic instrument in business activities. Mobile work and the mobile worker as such are key elements in these processes where the mobility burdens and loads for the business travellers constantly increase. The demands on employee's mobility willingness and competence seem to be undergoing a process of normalization. The normalization of mobility demands means that the employee's willingness to travel is no longer appreciated as a positive feature in the employees personnel file. In the older type of mobility regime named by Paulu as the old world it went more or less without saying that the willingness of employees to spend a longer time abroad or do a lot of travel had to be rewarded. The chapter concludes that the rationalization of business travel takes place on two levels: first, on the structural level and second, on the body scale.