ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates autoethnography as a data-inquiry method for workplace research, as well as its suitability for research where the scholar is examining a particular work setting. Workplace autoethnography uses the perspective of the researcher, or those of other participants, to establish a sense of authenticity by utilizing personal experiences to describe and understand cultural experience through a complex narrative. Since part of the workplace research explores the connections between workplace design and human behavior, social aspects of workers and organizational frameworks, workplace autoethnography requires a systematic inquiry approach to data analysis and habitually undertakes the form of an analytic autoethnography. The chapter subsequently presents an autoethnographic study with which the author seeks an understanding of how a highly flexible and community-based workplace can gradually transform throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
