With the increase of remote work after the COVID-19 pandemic, it can be expected that soon a great number of households will consist of more than one teleworker. This raises the question of how to manage work and nonwork boundaries for the collective of household members who work from home. To better understand the adjustment to collective work from home, we examined the experiences of 28 dual-income households with school-age children residing in five countries. In doing so, we found specific strategies that families used to manage boundaries between two or more household members' work, learning, and home domains. We identified four strategies to define boundaries in the collective (i.e., repurposing the home space, revisiting family members' responsibilities, aligning family members' schedules, and distributing technology access and use) and five strategies to apply boundaries to accommodate the collective (i.e., designating an informal boundary governor, maintaining live boundary agreements, increasing family communication, incentivizing/punishing boundary respect/violation, and outsourcing). Our findings have theoretical and practical implications for remote work and boundary management.

随着 COVID-19 大流行之后远程工作的增加，可以预计很快会有不止一名远程工作人员组成大量家庭。这就提出了一个问题，即如何为在家工作的家庭成员集体管理工作和非工作界限。为了更好地了解居家集体工作的适应情况，我们研究了居住在五个国家的 28 个有学龄儿童的双职工家庭的经历。在这样做的过程中，我们发现了家庭用来管理两个或更多家庭成员的工作、学习和家庭领域之间界限的具体策略。我们确定了四种策略来定义集体中的边界（即重新调整家庭空间的用途、重新审视家庭成员的责任、调整家庭成员的日程安排、和分配技术访问和使用）和五种策略来应用边界以适应集体（即，指定非正式的边界管理员、维护实时边界协议、增加家庭沟通、激励/惩罚边界尊重/违反和外包）。我们的发现对远程工作和边界管理具有理论和实践意义。