Research on the strategic organization of time often assumes that collective efforts are motivated by and oriented toward achieving desirable, although not necessarily well-defined, future states. In situations surrounded by uncertainty where work has to proceed urgently to avoid an impending disaster, however, temporal work is guided by engaging with both desirable and undesirable future outcomes. Drawing on a real-time, in-depth study of the inception of the Restoration and Renewal program of the Palace of Westminster, we investigate how organizational actors develop a strategy for an uncertain and highly contested future while safeguarding ongoing operations in the present and preserving the heritage of the past. Anticipation of undesirable future events played a crucial role in mobilizing collective efforts to move forward. We develop a model of future desirability in temporal work to identify how actors construct, link, and navigate interpretations of desirable and undesirable futures in their attempts to create a viable path of action. By conceptualizing temporal work based on the phenomenological quality of the future, we advance understanding of the strategic organization of time in pluralistic contexts characterized by uncertainty and urgency.

对时间的战略组织的研究通常假设集体努力是由实现预期状态（虽然不一定是定义明确的）的动机所驱动和定向的。但是，在充满不确定性的情况下，必须紧急进行工作以避免即将来临的灾难，临时工作是通过预期的和不利的未来成果参与的。借助对威斯敏斯特宫恢复与更新计划实施的实时，深入研究，我们研究了组织参与者如何在不确定的，竞争激烈的未来中制定战略，同时保护当前和保存中的正在进行的运营过去的遗产。对不希望发生的未来事件的预期在动员集体努力向前迈出了关键的角色。我们开发了临时工作中未来期望的模型，以识别参与者在尝试创建可行的行动路径时如何构建，链接和导航对理想和不良未来的解释。通过根据未来的现象学质量概念化时间工作，我们可以在不确定性和紧迫性为特征的多元环境中增进对时间战略组织的理解。