EP.WE.126Survey on surgeons’ experience of wearing full PPE in theatres

Aims With the invasion of surgical work space by SARS-CoV-2 virus in 2020, the surgical safety concerns have been escalated to a new height. COVID-19 risk has questioned the adequacy of traditional Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) that has been in practice until now. Full PPE including respirator masks and visors in day today practice by all theatre staff across all surgical disciplines being implemented during and post pandemic time. However this implementation is not without its drawbacks as much as its positive merits. We conducted a survey among surgeons to ascertain their personal experience of wearing full PPE in theatres in day today practice. Methods Survey Monkey questionnaire was sent to surgeons at various levels in their carrier in different disciplines in the region. Results 47 surgeons responded to the questionnaire. 65% of the respondents were from General surgery and 38% of them were consultants. 85% of surgeons considered full PPE uncomfortable. Communication and visibility were main issues. Majority (52%) thinks that full PPE can affect their performance. The length of the procedure makes the negative effects of full PPE worse. More than 50% of respondents were not sure of the beneficial effects of full PPE in theatres. Conclusions Full PPE can have impact on the performance of surgeons. Communication being one of the main issues in wearing full PPE, an alternative strategy needs to be developed to improve communication between individuals in theatres.

The new spacetime of telework: A challenge for the quality of worklife

Spatiotemporal coordinates are crucial for understanding work experience. The combined effect of the confinement in the face of Covid-19 andthe intense and accelerated development of digital technology changed the nature, forms, conditions, and working relationships. This transformation has been radical with regard to what has been modernly thought of as space and as working time. The objective of the study was to analyze psychosocial aspects of this new reality, visualizing its antecedents and reflecting on its implications. The information was collected from various types of sources: for the study of the antecedents, a selection of classic studies on work space-time was used, which provided a historiographic description of the paradigm inherited from modernity. For the perspective of the psychosocial implications of the new work environment, mainstream literature and secondary sources provided by the abundant multi-color literature available on Google were used. The collected material was subjected to a treatment inspired by thematic content analysis. In an initial phase, the core of the change was identified as a basically spatial phenomenon of distancing from the workplace. From this perspective, the focus of attention was the comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of face-to-face activity and interactions with virtual work, mediated by gadgets, clouds, networks, and virtual platforms. Later, this dynamic was recognized as a reconfiguration of work space- time, passing the temporal dimension to be the center of the new field of experience. The psychosocial impact attributed to the combined digitization, internalization, teleworking from home, and virtualization of processes has been described as a dilution of the boundaries between work and non-work, as colonization and work contamination of domestic, family, private and personal space-time and, ultimately, as a threat, but also as an opportunity, for the quality of working life. The observed panorama leads to suspect that the virtualization of work processes, which is advancing unstoppably hand in hand with digitization -with or without a pandemic-, represents a hybrid of a black hole, which puts the quality of working life at risk, and a wormhole, which provides new opportunities for human development.

At the Shores of Work

Shifting away from the paradigmatic factory gates, this article examines what comes into view as cinema approaches the port. Through a reading of Aloysio Raulino’s experimental short film Santos Port (Brazil, 1978), it shows how the port film is uniquely poised to view livelihoods that trouble narrow definitions of work and its spatial, temporal, and corporeal limits. Through its montage and unusual soundscape, Santos Port presents laboring bodies in excess of their labor in an elusive portrait of both a strike and of work-life relationships. Unwaged, overlooked forms of work and their relationship to broader modes of life are subject to an unprecedented attention. In the process, the port film queries what is meant by work, and in particular its spatial-temporal dimensions—the work site and the working day, the key site of struggle for labor under capitalism. Crucially, the port film is also where the labor of gender is thrown into stark relief, for understandings of work-time and work-space are indelibly and insistently gendered. The article concludes by suggesting how these expanded understandings of work are inflected by the geopolitical position of port films and their relationship to global capitalism.

DINAMISASI KABINET DAN UPAYA KONSISTENSI SISTEM PRESIDENSIAL DI INDONESIA

Dinamisasi kabinet kerja yang merupakan hak prereogratif presiden tidak hanya memperhatikan resistensi antara presiden dengan kepentingan partai politik, namun juga pertimbangan antara eksistensi Pemerintah Daerah sebagai konsekuensi dari sistem Presidensil dalam bentuk Negara Kesatuan Republik Indonesia. Tulisan ini berusaha menelaah topik pembahasan Dinamisasi Kabinet dan Upaya Konsistensi Sistem Presidensial di Indonesia. Metode penelitiаn ini аdаlаh yuridis normаtif dengan pendekatan historis, pendekatan konseptual, dan pendekatan peraturan perundang-undangan. Hasil dalam pembahasan ini menyimpulkan bahwa postur kabinet harus dibarengi dengan sinkornisasi hukum hingga pada titik minimum postur pemerintahan (Pemerintah Daerah) dengan Pemerintah Pusat yang direpresentasikan oleh kementerian melalui UU Nomor 23 Tahun 2014 tentang Pemerintah Daerah dengan UU Nomor 39 tahun 2008 tentang Kementerian. Bentuk sinkornisasi tersebut dapat dilakukan melalui: Penambahan unsur profesionalisme dalam UU, Penambahan peraturan terkait komposisi, dan/atau syarat, dalam penambahan/ pengubahan/ penghapusan kementerian, dan penambahan pengaturan terkait harmonisasi kewenangan dan ruang kerja antara pusat dan daerah.Kata kunci: Dinamisasi, Kabinet, Pemerintah. The dynamism of the working cabinet, which is the president's prerequisite, not only takes into account the resistance between the president and the interests of political parties, but also the consideration between the existence of the Regional Government as a consequence of the Presidency system in the form of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia. This paper attempts to examine Cabinet Dynamics and Efforts to Consistency in the Presidential System in Indonesia. This research method is juridical normative with a historical approach, a conceptual approach, and a statutory approach. The results of this discussion conclude that the cabinet posture must be accompanied by legal syncornization to the minimum point of government posture (Regional Government) with the Central Government represented by the ministry through Law Number 23 of 2014 concerning Regional Government with Law Number 39 of 2008 concerning Ministries. This form of syncornization can be carried out through: Adding elements of professionalism in laws, adding regulations related to composition, and/or requirements, adding/ changing/ deleting ministries, and adding regulations related to harmonization of authority and work space between the central and regional governments.Keywords: Cabinet, Dynamism, State Government

Investigation of the Distribution of the Daytime Employed Population of Yangon, Myanmar, with and without the Impact of Work from Home

Work from home (WFH) has gradually become popular since Covid-19 started its transmission in Myanmarduring the first quarter of 2020. It re-evaluated the culture of ‘a work space’ and a significant change has occurred to the pattern of day-time distribution of the employed population. In this paper, network distribution model was built with three constraints, Distribution Bias 1, 2 and 3. These biases were determined through questionaries, survey data collections of responses from Yangonites and geographical data of urban employment cores. These percentile biases influenced the amount of employed population per distribution times and gave rise into two results. One was the ordinary day-time employed population ODEP and another was the improved day-time employed distribution IDEP (considering WFH). These two results were compared and contrasted with coefficient of variations, t-tests and other correlation methods to determine the effect of WFH on the day-time employed population. With survey data, it was clarified that majorities in Yangon do favor work from home as an alternative option for future employment. Subsequently, compared results revealed that work from home significantly decreased the amount of employment distribution and the amount of such decrements were more consistence and have less variations, thence, reduce cramming during day-time distribution.

Analysis of the use of digital technologies in the activities of educational organizations in the conditions of distance learning (from the experience of France)

The article deals with the issues of setting up and developing distance learning technology in France on the example of the National Center for Distance Education (CNED). The organizational forms of its implementation are given, the role of digital educational resources and digital work space in realization of distance learning is shown.

Vpliv uporabe mobilnih aplikacij v organizacijskih procesih na zaposlene

Labor market and work space are constantly changing under the influence of progress in technology, which is a characteristic of the digital age. With progression came the usage of smart phones and mobile applications in the workplace. Task performance is increasingly supported by a range of mobile applications, which means unlimited everyday usage of smart phones and applications. Due to numerous positive properties of the use of mobile, this digital trend is rapidly spreading. We wanted to provide a better insight into how widespread the trend in Slovenian companies is, investigate the impact of mobile applications on employees and what their opinion is about the use of mobile applications in the workplace. Research showed that the digital trend in Slovenia is on the rise. Since mobile applications facilitate work tasks, opinions on the use of mobile applications in the workplace were positive; nevertheless, the respondents believe they are not a necessity