scholarly journals The Impact of Technological Developments on Remote Working: Insights from the Polish Managers’ Perspective

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 552
Author(s):  
Maria Urbaniec ◽  
Agnieszka Małkowska ◽  
Hanna Włodarkiewicz-Klimek
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Previous Experience ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Adoption Theory ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Organizational Perspective ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Day To Day Operations ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

“Stay at home” orders during the COVID-19 pandemic radically changed the day-to-day operations of many organizations and moved employees from offices to homes. The sudden crisis forced companies to reformulate their operations. Enabling employees to work from home has become a necessity for both business continuity and survival. The unexpected crisis has also proved to be beneficial for some aspects of economic activity. This research focuses on identifying and measuring the benefits of and barriers to remote work from an organizational perspective, as perceived by managerial staff in Poland. We investigate the factors that influence the assessment of the scale of benefits of and barriers to remote working. The study examines the impact of various factors on the benefits of and barriers to remote working, such as a company’s previous experience with remote working, the support provided to employees by the company, the monitoring of remote working effects, and the implementation of new IT tools. These results suggest that the way the company and employees are managed in a crisis, the approach of superiors to the evaluation and control of effects on work, and the adaptation of support to the real needs of employees, all play fundamental roles. The factors examined that influence the perceived benefits of or barriers to remote working from an organization’s perspective contribute to adoption theory.

scholarly journals Motivating the administrative staff of agricultural enterprises during remote work during the pandemic Covid-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 222 ◽  
pp. 06017
Author(s):  
Sergey Yekimov ◽  
Ihor Leonidov ◽  
Igor Smyrnov ◽  
Yevhenii Karmannyi ◽  
Serhii Kovzhoha
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Administrative Staff ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Job Responsibilities ◽  
Agricultural Enterprises ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Intellectual Potential ◽  
And Control ◽  
Goals And Objectives ◽  
Coordination And Control

The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic forced the administrative staff of agricultural enterprises to work from home, thus raising the issue of remote workforce motivation. Whenever employees are working from home, their activity needs coordination and control over the fulfillment of job responsibilities. The study proposes that efficient functioning and motivation of remote workforce be achieved through the creation of team, which will fully use the potential of every employee and coordinate their joint efforts for the sake of attainment of company goals and objectives. The coaching method is suggested as the way to build a team. Such team will possess a relevant intellectual potential and troubleshooting flexibility. An efficient team is capable of raising labor productivity, which will improve the company’s position on the market and will generate additional revenue for financial motivation of employees.

scholarly journals Science communication as a preventative tool in the COVID19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gagan Matta
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Hygiene Practices ◽  
Linguistic Barriers ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

AbstractHumans have witnessed epidemics and pandemics periodically throughout history. Often, such infectious outbreaks have resulted in entire civilisations struggling against possible extinction. Despite recent clinical advancements and technological developments, issues of neglected sustainability and lax health hygiene practices, among others, have provided a context for the emergence of the COVID19 pandemic. Against such a backdrop, scientific communication using diversified tools could play a significant role in efforts towards preparedness and control, as well as the initiation of immediate remedial measures in the fight against epidemics and pandemics. These tools could help to increase understanding of the scientific solutions to minimise the outbreaks of infectious diseases, thereby strengthening societal immunity. This paper considers the history of epidemics/pandemics to draw attention to their occurrence, effects and potential impacts on human societies. In addition, it defines the major factors underpinning the various infectious outbreaks over the last three decades. Constructive preparation and preventative stages for authorities, scientists and researchers to check and diminish the impact of epidemics and pandemics during and post-outbreak are suggested while focusing on the need for science communication in the healthcare system. The paper also reviews recent empirical studies and WHO guidelines. Communication through appropriate communicators may help cut through the noise, share facts and boost confidence in science and governance. The impact of science communication on the interplay between government–expert–public or society could help promote positive behavioural change as well as overcome linguistic barriers.

scholarly journals Benefits and Challenges of Telework During The Covid-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-135
Author(s):  
Susanti Saragih ◽  
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Santy Setiawan ◽  
Teddy Markus ◽  
Peter Rhian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Flexible Work ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Total Respondent ◽  
Hr Managers ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Work Arrangement ◽  
At Home

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the term work from home (WFH) has been introduced to refer to a work arrangement in which individual can complete their duties while they are at home. While most flexible work arrangements are a preference, work from home is mandatory. Therefore, the impact of WFH during the Covid-19 pandemic needs to be studied. The total respondent of this study is 337 employees, who are works at home during the pandemic. The results showed that the three main benefits employees might gain during WFH are flexibility, more time with family, and less travel time. On the other side, employees struggle to balance their personal and work life, access to websites or software, and limited devices and workspace. Most of the companies are not ready for the WFH scheme though some of them gave support to employees (e.g., quota subsidy). This research gave some essential suggestions for HR managers in designing remote work for the future.

REMOTE WORK MANAGEMENT DURING A PANDEMIC

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentyn Kovshyk ◽  
◽  
Olha Yatsenko ◽  
Mykola Horbunov ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Personal Contact ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Continuous Training ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Methodical Approach ◽  
Management Functions ◽  
Structural Blocks ◽  
The Impact

For almost two years, humankind has been living in a coronavirus pandemic. It has gone from a complete misunderstanding of what to do and how to live and work to a step where informed and thoughtful decisions are already being made, and crisis management programs are being developed. The challenge for many was a new format of remote work, for which neither managers nor their subordinates were ready. The article considers the meaning of the term “telework” (“remote work”), the number of remote workers in the world before the pandemic, the peculiarities of the legal regulation of telework in Ukraine, and the number of people who were able to work from home after the introduction of quarantine in the country. The problems in management that complicate the transition to the remote format of work are analyzed. Authors list industries with a high and medium ability to work remotely; describe psychological aspects of unpreparedness for the transition to remote employment of managers and subordinates. Emphasis is placed on the availability of certain technical capabilities, as well as special knowledge, skills, and abilities to master tools for remote work, which highlights the need for continuous training of staff. It is noted that the classic management functions have also transformed: they take into account the prevention and leveling of the impact of negative factors associated with the pandemic. The key directions of managerial and organizational work during the pandemic are substantiated: ensuring the safety of workers, providing staff training, providing technical capabilities for remote work, and implementation of management functions. The general methodical approach and recommendations concerning the system of organizational measures having three structural blocks are presented: the general organizational measures; ensuring the safety of participants in bureaucratic procedures that require personal contact; providing technical capabilities for remote work. It is assumed that if the proposed measures are applied, enterprises and organizations will be able to increase their efficiency, operate in a crisis, and reduce the negative impact of the pandemic on workers.

scholarly journals Is working from home the new workplace panacea? Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for the future world of work

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremias J. De Klerk ◽  
Mandi Joubert ◽  
Hendrikjan F. Mosca
Keyword(s):  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Office Work ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Working From Home ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Value Add ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time

Orientation: The COVID-19 pandemic has forced millions of employees to work from home as governments implemented lockdowns.Research purpose: This study examined the impact of working exclusively from home on employee engagement and experience, and determined beneficial and distracting factors.Motivation for the study: Remote working trends have risen steeply since the onset of COVID-19 and are unlikely to taper off soon. Organisations need to understand the impact of remote work when reconsidering working arrangements.Research approach/design and method: A dual-approach qualitative design was followed. The sample comprised 25 employees (N = 25) who were forced to work exclusively from home during COVID-19. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews.Main findings: Working from home for protracted periods rendered paradoxical outcomes. Employees could work effectively with improved employee engagement and experience, but there were challenges rendering adverse effects. The experienced benefits of working from home created expectations that this practice would continue in future, along with some office work.Practical/managerial implications: Organisations need to continue, though not exclusively, with work-from-home arrangements. The ideal ratio of remote work to office work was seen as two to three days per week. However, support and cultural practices would have to be put in place.Contribution/value-add: The COVID-19 lockdown provided a unique environment to study remote work. For the first time, employees and organisations were placed in a situation where they could experience working from home in a stark and compulsory form, devoid of idealistic fantasies or romanticism.

Socio-Economic Questions of Motivating Collaborators in the Context of Remote Work

2021 ◽  
pp. 6-17
Author(s):  
S. V. Boyko ◽  
N. N. Pokrovskaia ◽  
A. L. Slobodskoy ◽  
V. A. Spivak
Keyword(s):  
Remote Work ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Distributed Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Group Relationships ◽  
Interpersonal Ties ◽  
Almost All ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

Motivation and involvement of individual and collective subjects of social and labor relations in work in the traditional format of building work processes is based on strong and diverse interpersonal ties, supported by constant repetitive interaction. Remote work (work outside the office) leads to the need to rethink the impact of the manager on the employee from the standpoint of motivation and control. Distributed work involves a new approach to building interactions between employees in a team, rethinking and reconfiguring group relationships in a team. In the context of social isolation measures caused by the pandemic, almost all enterprises (with the exception of a rather narrow list of strategically important industries) faced the need to change the approach to organizing work processes in general, and managers discovered new problem areas in the field of motivation. In the event of a sudden lockdown, the first to solve the social and psychological problems of maintaining the involvement of employees in work processes, at the same time, problems of a socioeconomic nature receded into secondary positions, since physical and mental health was recognized as an absolute priority. The article is devoted to the analysis of the main approaches to resolving problem areas in the field of socio-economic approaches to motivating employees of enterprises and organizations in a format of remote distributed work that is unexpected for companies and employees.

scholarly journals P642 Effects of Covid-19 on employment in IBD patients

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S575-S575
Author(s):  
M Sciberras ◽  
C Nascimento ◽  
T Tabone ◽  
K Karmiris ◽  
P Nikolaou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Data ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
International Study ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Psychosocial Effects ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Female Smoker ◽  
Previous Medication ◽  
The Impact ◽  
At Home

Abstract Background There is an ongoing concern over the impact of COVID-19 on IBD patients. A significant proportion of IBD patients are treated with immunosuppressive medications and their effects on COVID-19 susceptibility and outcomes remain of concern to patients and physicians alike. Apart from the clinical outcome, the pandemic may have other psychosocial effects on this vulnerable cohort such as employment stability. The primary aim of this study was to analyze the percentage of COVID-19 patients who tested themselves for COVID-19 and the outcome of those who tested positive. A secondary aim was to assess their employment status. Methods This was a multicentre international study whereby IBD patients (>18 years) in clinical remission over the last year, were asked to answer an anonymous questionnaire. Demographic data, type of IBD, current and previous medication, admissions to hospital, were collected. Exclusion criteria included patients with IBD flares requiring corticosteroids in the previous 12 months. Results 573 patients (CD: 55.5%) from 8 European Centres and Israel participated in the study. The mean patient age was 39.9 years (SD+/- 13.0). 21.6% were current smokers and 48.5% were non-smokers. The rest were ex-smokers. 44.5% (n=255 ) of patients were tested for Covid-19 and 5.1% (n=13) were positive. The majority were treated at home (92.3%) with only one patient requiring hospital admission. This was a 33 year old female smoker with UC (E3 disease activity) on anti-TNF therapy. 66.7% of positive cases were on anti-TNF medication and 22.2% were on thiopurines. None of the positive cases were on dual antiTNF/thiopurine therapy. 7.2% of patients had family members who also tested positive for Covid-19. Almost half of all patients (45.2%) had their job affected during the pandemic and this was more prevalent in the UC cohort (P<0.05). 70% of patients switched to remote work from home and 21.4% became unemployed. The average age of patients becoming unemployed was 39.3years (SD+/- 11.9). Conclusion Nearly half of our cohort (45.2%) underwent testing and the majority (92.3%) were treated at home even though two thirds of them were on Anti-TNF medication. Unemployment rates affected 1 in 5 individuals and measures promoting remote work have been taken up wisely by IBD patients. Though the clinical outcomes were excellent, the psychological effects of unemployment have yet to be considered.

scholarly journals Gaining trust and remaining mentally sane while working from home : The importance of employee wellbeing

Intersections ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-240
Author(s):  
Ráchel Surányi
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Employee Wellbeing ◽  
Medical Issues ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Work Affect ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit us hard. It is not only difficult in terms of psychological and medical issues, but it has turned into an economic crisis as well. One of the most significant ‘side effects’ of the first wave was widespread remote work, which was not regular – many people had to work from home while also taking care of their loved ones (be they children or other family members, or friends). Our research – part of an EU-funded project on sustainable mobility – was carried out in the city of Szeged (Hungary) among seven companies/employers. As the project was strongly affected by the crisis, the research focused on the impact of COVID19 and the lockdown on remote work. How did remote work affect employees’ mental, physical, and social wellbeing? How did employers and employees deal with the new situation? What can we learn from this crisis regarding the relationship between remote work and mental health? To find answers to our questions, we used mixed methods, i.e., combined qualitative with quantitative methodology. This case study analyses the related difficulties and challenges from the employee point of view and sheds light on some of the good practices and measures which can be applied by other companies.

scholarly journals Management Information Systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogdan-Alexandru Furduescu
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Product Information ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Management Information Systems ◽  
Management Information ◽  
Economic Growth And Development ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Technology is the science that studies processes, methods and operations run or applied onto raw materials, matters or data, in order to obtain a certain product. Information is the material signal able to launch a material reaction of a dynamic auto-tuning system for which the system is conditioned and finalized. Information Technology is the technology needed for handling (procuring, processing, storing converting and transmitting) information, in particular, with the use of computers [Longley, D. & Shain, M. (1985), p. 164]. The importance of IT in the economic growth and development is widely known, taking into account the impact that technology can have on the success and survival, or the failure of the economic activity of enterprises/organizations, IT offering various management information systems (MIS), executive and feedback segments, which all have important and beneficial implications in management and control.

scholarly journals Exploring the Impact of Mandatory Remote Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Talha Oz ◽  
Andrew Crooks
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Organizational Health ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Workplace Communication ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Heterogeneous Effects ◽  
Level Ii ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Work Management

During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people had to work from home. We examine the ways in which COVID-19 affect organizational communication by analyzing five months of calendar and messaging metadata from a technology company. We found that: (i) cross-level communication increased more than that of same-level, (ii) while within-team messaging increased considerably, meetings stayed the same, (iii) off-hours messaging became much more frequent, and that this effect was stronger for women; (iv) employees respond to non-managers faster than managers; finally, (v) the number of short meetings increased while long meetings decreased. These findings contribute to theories on organizational communication, remote work, management, and flexibility stigma. Besides, this study exemplifies a strategy to measure organizational health using an objective (not self-report based) method. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study using workplace communication metadata to examine the heterogeneous effects of mandatory remote work.

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