Working from home (WFH) is a new reality and norm in today’s work culture. COVID-induced lockdown introduced the concept of WFH for many people. Blurring home and workplace boundaries was a prominent cause of disorientation in people’s lives. Hence, WFH becomes a significant phenomenon to explore as it raises the fundamental question of body and space in shaping people’s experiences. To study this, the researchers designed a phenomenological inquiry and examined the lived phenomenon of WFH during the COVID lockdown. Borrowing theoretical concepts from philosophers Martin Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, they aimed to understand human experiences from an embodied perspective. They interviewed a few adults (age group 27–50) in three urban Indian cities during the first phase of the COVID-19 lockdown. The participants’ experiences were transcribed, and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was conducted. The IPA themes highlighted their varied lived experiences and lifeworld, such as distractions in working from home, their changed routines, habits, and social interaction. The findings are discussed through phenomenological psychology concepts such as embodied cognition, body memory, extended self, shared empathy, intersubjectivity and pre-reflective bodily intelligence in coping. The study’s contribution is that it advances a methodological understanding by interpreting people’s experiences from a phenomenological view of being-in-the-world in which the individual is not an isolated entity but is in the world/placed in the world with other people and the environment.

在家工作 (WFH) 是当今工作文化中的新现实和常态。新冠疫情引发的封锁给许多人带来了在家办公的概念。家庭和工作场所界限的模糊是人们生活迷失方向的一个主要原因。因此，在家办公成为一个值得探索的重要现象，因为它提出了塑造人们体验的身体和空间的基本问题。为了研究这一点，研究人员设计了一项现象学调查，并研究了新冠疫情封锁期间在家办公的生活现象。他们借用哲学家马丁·海德格尔和梅洛·庞蒂的理论概念，旨在从具体的角度理解人类的经历。他们在 COVID-19 封锁的第一阶段采访了印度三个城市的一些成年人（27-50 岁）。记录参与者的经历，并进行解释性现象学分析（IPA）。IPA 主题强调了他们不同的生活经历和生活世界，例如在家工作的干扰、他们改变的日常生活、习惯和社交互动。研究结果通过现象学心理学概念进行讨论，例如具身认知、身体记忆、延伸自我、共享同理心、主体间性和应对中的前反思身体智能。这项研究的贡献在于，它通过从存在于世界的现象学观点来解释人们的经验，从而推进了方法论的理解，在这种观点中，个人不是一个孤立的实体，而是与其他人和世界一起存在于世界中/放置在世界上。环境。