%0 Journal Article
%T Rethinking Hybrid Work Boundaries Beyond the Immediate Post-Pandemic Transition
%A Omar Zayed
%A Leila Ibrahim
%A Ahmed Mansour
%J Journal of Applied Organizational Systems and Behavior
%@ 3108-852X
%D 2023
%V 3
%N 1
%R 10.51847/x6VOsxtJBv
%P 91-99
%X Hybrid work has moved from emergency accommodation to a durable organizational arrangement, yet much of the literature still treats it as a location choice or a residual pandemic condition. This state-of-the-art review reconsiders hybrid work as an enacted boundary regime that distributes control, interruption, social access, and visibility across workers, teams, and organizations. The review examines the development of recent scholarship and synthesizes four connected domains: autonomy and boundary control, recovery and temporal fragmentation, belonging under uneven physical presence, and career inequality associated with proximity advantage. Evidence was selected through transparent identification, screening, appraisal, and claim-level extraction, while PRISMA-compatible reporting was used only to document the selection pathway. The literature converges on heterogeneity: flexibility can increase discretion while transferring coordination and boundary-management responsibility; digital connection can preserve access while weakening relational depth; and reduced physical presence can remove commuting burdens while changing recognition opportunities. Contradictions often arise because studies examine different policy forms, intensities, tasks, occupations, household conditions, and implementation climates. The review proposes an original enacted-boundary-regime synthesis in which formal flexibility is analytically separated from realized control, recoverable time, consequential inclusion, and visibility-based advantage. This synthesis is not a validated causal model. Its value lies in organizing unresolved relationships, clarifying alternative explanations, and directing research toward longitudinal, multilevel, and policy-specific tests. Organizational implications are therefore conditional: hybrid work should be evaluated through how boundaries are governed and experienced, not through attendance ratios alone.
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