Gender studies

Pathology

Sociology

Neuroscience

Consciousness

Work (physics)

Disease

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Pandemic

Operating system

Embodied cognition

Epistemology

Engineering

Philosophy

Political science

Psychology

Narrative

Programming language

Space (punctuation)

Privilege (computing)

Computer science

Linguistics

Reflection (computer programming)

Medicine

Mechanical engineering

Gender Work and Organization

This article offers a feminist reflection written as a nocturnal stream of consciousness exposing the embodied, emotional and professional experience of living and working during a pandemic outbreak. Framed within a feminist approach, this personal narrative provides an example of the effects of such unexpected and unprecedented circumstances on personal and professional academic lives. Developed during the first stage of the (inter)national coronavirus pandemic, my reflections address issues of privilege; emotional labour; the virtual invasion of the home space within the current increasingly ambiguous space of 'the workplace'; workload; and wellbeing. Further, I consider how the newly enforced flexible work measures based on online tools have turned current work-life dynamics into a 'Never-ending Shift'.

The Never‐ending Shift: A feminist reflection on living and organizing academic lives during the coronavirus pandemic