The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted and accelerated deep changes to office work and how it is conducted. As work migrated to employees’ houses—turning them into working-homes, it switched both the spatial and temporal dimensions of work organization. Today, it seems these transformations have become structural and herald a new era of work: that of hybrid work. However, when it comes to characterizing this particular working arrangement or reporting on its advantages and disadvantages, the specificity of hybrid work compared to other forms of flexible working (teleworking, flexwork or the distributed workplace, in particular) is not immediately apparent. So, while current research presents hybrid work as a “new normal”, it draws heavily on the literature on teleworking to describe it—suggesting that it is more a clone of existing realities than a new one. What, ‘in fine’, does distinguish hybrid work from other forms of flexible work, if anything? This is the question this proposal addresses, and we initiate a conceptualization work in order to characterize hybrid work. To do so, we proceeded to an integrative literature review.
Keywords : Hybrid work, telework, remote working, conceptualizing, hybridity, Integrative literature review.