The global pandemic not only moved globally the work done primarily in the public premises such as offices, meeting rooms and hallways, lecture halls and schools, to private spaces, to homes during the Spring 2020, but it also made our homes open and exposed to colleagues, customers, clients, students and even to invited or uninvited strangers to enter through Zoom and Teams meeting applications and other platforms and means of communication. This drastic and global transformation has percussions to the ways we display our private homes as public space, and how we perform our professions and work identities.

How has the intimacy of a home transformed by the sudden burst of openness? How do we as workers display our homes and delineate the footages of camera and the angles of display? And how do we, as professionals, display our professionalism? How does the intimacy of home become part of the work place practices and patterns during the Covid-19 global pandemic? In the empirical analysis part of this paper, we will use results of a recent nation-wide survey to examine how people have found the remote work mode at their home and how they find out the role of the physical space, its permanence and transformation at home for the work. We discuss the material location of work at home, and compare this to the time pre-pandemic remote work situations. We then move on to explore the notions of spaces, performances and intimacies, and public and private spaces and work, through the literature review.