ABSTRACT
Mobile work has often been approached as a challenge of dealing with contingent environments. This chapter examines whether it can also become a transformative experience. Using Heidegger’s idea of authentic temporality, the chapter analyses a mobile work period, occurring in an isolated and rural archipelago environment, as its empirical case. This work period in an alternative environment created an authentic experience of time, which supported concentration and personal reflection. Mobile work is argued to enable processes of transition, particularly in spaces where one can feel ‘at home’ and simultaneously experience a detachment from the everyday environment.
