This study aims to better understand the modern evolution of the workplace not only as a place to work but also increasingly as a place to live. Current research largely excludes the instrumental aspects of this blurring of personal and professional spheres at work, as manifested in an intentional dissolution of the boundaries between work and non-work activities. To understand the meaning and implications of these new workplaces, which rely on a central tension between care and control and tend to reinterpret paternalism as an organizing principle, this study develops a conceptual framework derived from Michel Foucault’s concept of pastoral power. This framework helps make sense of a caring mode of power that marks modern organizations. The application of this framework—using a qualitative case study of a French company’s home-like working environment—suggests a processual and constructivist conceptualization of these workplaces as a manifestation of pastoral power, embedded in a broader governmentality strategy. It emphasizes the material and discursive construction of the workplace as a place to live and highlights the emergence of neo-paternalism as a new form of care and control. This critical perspective informs discussion on the implications of this caring mode of control for workers, in a hopeful call to stay alert to modern capitalist intrigues.

这项研究旨在更好地了解工作场所的现代演变，不仅是工作场所，而且越来越多地成为生活场所。当前的研究在很大程度上排除了工作中个人和专业领域的这种模糊的工具方面，这表现为有意消除工作与非工作活动之间的界限。为了理解这些新工作场所的含义和含义，这些工作场所依赖照护与控制之间的中心张力，并倾向于将家长式作风重新解释为一种组织原则，本研究建立了一个由米歇尔·福柯的牧民权概念衍生的概念框架。该框架有助于理解标志着现代组织的权力关怀模式。该框架的应用（通过对一家法国公司的家庭式工作环境进行定性案例研究）建议对这些工作场所进行过程化和建构主义的概念化，作为牧民权力的体现，并嵌入更广泛的政府策略中。它强调了作为生活场所的工作场所的物质性和话语性，并强调了工作场所的出现。新家长制是一种新的关怀和控制形式。这种批判性的观点使人们对这种关怀控制方式对工人的意义的讨论成为可能，呼吁人们保持警惕，以警惕现代资本主义的阴谋。