The COVID-19 pandemic has engendered a paradigm shift in conventional notions of workspace, predominantly characterized by the escalating prevalence of remote work modalities. Popularly known as work from home, this new mode of work has effectively relocated professional activities to the domestic realm, transforming the home into a workspace. This paper explores the gendered spatial experiences of the workspaces of urban migrant women from Kerala, a South Indian state, during the pandemic, focusing on those who utilized work-from-home options from various locations. It elucidates how workspace is constructed and experienced within domestic spheres at different stages of the pandemic in two different locations. The findings reveal that the embedded spatiality of workspace differ significantly between hometowns (semi-urban and rural areas) and migrated cities (metropolitan cities) and the degree of autonomy over workspaces in domestic settings is contingent upon locational variations between native and urban environments. The study demonstrates how gendered power dynamics influence the workspace environment within the domestic setting and underscores the implications of such spatial dynamics on migratory decisions among women.
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