“Work Optional”: The Adoption and Enactment of a New Work Ideal in the Financial Independence Retire Early Community
Administrative Science Quarterly
Published online on July 09, 2026
Abstract
Administrative Science Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 3, Page 692-736, September 2026.
This study examines how people change their relationship with work through the adoption and enactment of a new work ideal: a novel aspiration for what constitutes an optimal work life. Drawing on two years of ethnographic observation of the Financial ...
This study examines how people change their relationship with work through the adoption and enactment of a new work ideal: a novel aspiration for what constitutes an optimal work life. Drawing on two years of ethnographic observation of the Financial ...