Happiness and productivity as government device in telework at the pandemic time

Abstract

This article delineates the configuration of the government device based on the discursive and non-discursive practices of positive organizational psychology and its discourse of happiness and its relationship with autonomy, care and productivity in the period of the Covid 19 pandemic, which brought about great changes in the world of work, a device emerged that produced a subject that in the interactions with others had to discipline itself to contain the contagion by Sars-Cov-2 and at the same time continue to be productive, this productivity would be managed from some knowledge such as those of positive organizational psychology, legal and institutional provisions, regulations and guidelines. These strategies of governmentality organized some forms of teleworking, some techniques, ascetic, exercises, workshops, management of well-being that aim to make the subject organize on himself a set of subjective practices to achieve tranquility, creativity and productivity.