From Stationary to Remote: Employee Risks at Pandemic Migration of Workplaces

Sustainability

Manuela Pérez-Pérez¹  Ángel Martínez-Sánchez¹  Vida Davidavičienė²  Katarzyna Lis³  Janusz Rymaniak⁴ 

[1] Department of Business Management and Organization, School of Engineering and Architecture, University of Zaragoza, 50015 Zaragoza, Spain;Department of Business Technologies and Entrepreneurship, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, LT-10223 Vilnius, Lithuania;Department of Labour and Social Policy, Poznań University of Economics and Business, 61-875 Poznań, Poland;Department of Management, Faculty of Management and Finance, WSB University in Gdańsk, 80-266 Gdańsk, Poland;

关键词: remote work;    telework;    labor market;    work design;    workplace;    pandemic crisis;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su13137180

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The first lockdown due to COVID-19 in the year 2020 created a particular scenario that forced a change to telework among diverse professions and social groups. This article presents the results of research carried out among samples of Polish, Lithuanian and Spanish remote workers concerning working conditions in organizations and at home, and the potential impact of some professional hazards from home-based telework. On the contrary to earlier published papers on pandemic-induced telework that focused on how the limitations at home of first-time remote workers impacted on their well-being and work–family balance, our research contributes to a more recent endeavor that focuses the analysis on the work design perspective. The results of the survey indicate that employees felt more stressed and in conflict at their remote workstations when they had to telework during the lockdown, and that this negative output was significantly related to the deterioration of some working dimensions like space, quality and design but not to the perception of professional hazards from home-based telework. According to our research, the forced situation seemed not to be a favorable factor for implementing changes in light of the insufficient technical and organizational preparation of employers as well as the employees’ mental preparation. It should be necessary to update sequentially the results of the epidemic-induced telework and conduct research for various stages of the pandemic and the subsequent economic recovery. This could help popularize remote work as one of the tools of the labor market in the future and as a tool for treating labor resources as an element of sustainable development.

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