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Future teleworking inclinations post-COVID-19: examining the role of teleworking conditions and perceived productivity
Organisations have implemented intensive home-based teleworking in response to global COVID-19 lockdowns and other pandemic-related restrictions. Financial pressures are driving organisations to continue intensive teleworking after the pandemic. Understanding employees’ teleworking inclinations post...
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| author | Clara Weber Sarah E Golding Joanna Yarker Rachel Lewis Eleanor Ratcliffe Fehmidah Munir Theresa P Wheele Eunji Häne Lukas Windlinger |
| author_facet | Clara Weber Sarah E Golding Joanna Yarker Rachel Lewis Eleanor Ratcliffe Fehmidah Munir Theresa P Wheele Eunji Häne Lukas Windlinger |
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| description | Organisations have implemented intensive home-based teleworking in response to global COVID-19 lockdowns and other pandemic-related restrictions. Financial pressures are driving organisations to continue intensive teleworking after the pandemic. Understanding employees’ teleworking inclinations post COVID-19, and how these inclinations are influenced by different factors, is important to ensure any future, more permanent changes to teleworking policies are sustainable for both employees and organisations. This study, therefore, investigated the relationships between the context of home-based teleworking during the pandemic (pandemic-teleworking conditions), productivity perceptions during home-based teleworking, and employees’ future teleworking inclinations (FTI) beyond the pandemic. Specifically, the study examined whether pandemic-teleworking conditions related to the job, and the physical and social environments at home, influenced employees’ FTI, and if perceptions of improved or reduced productivity mediated these relationships. Data were collected during April and May 2020 with a cross-sectional online survey of teleworkers (n = 184) in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and other countries during the first COVID-19 lockdowns. Reported FTI were mixed. Most participants (61%) reported wanting to telework more post-pandemic compared to before the pandemic; however, 18% wanted to telework less. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis revealed that some teleworking conditions (job demands and work privacy fit) were positively associated with FTI. Other teleworking conditions (specifically, job change, job control, home office adequacy, and childcare) were not associated with FTI. Perceived changes in productivity mediated the relationship between work privacy fit and FTI. Findings highlight the role of work privacy fit and job demands in influencing pandemic productivity perceptions and teleworking inclinations post-pandemic. Results raise questions about the suitability and sustainability of home-based teleworking for all staff. As organisations plan to increase the proportion of teleworking post-pandemic, this study suggests there is a need to support employees who perceived their productivity to be poor while home-working during the pandemic. |
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| spelling | rr-article-211751022022-05-09T00:00:00Z Future teleworking inclinations post-COVID-19: examining the role of teleworking conditions and perceived productivity Clara Weber (11893604) Sarah E Golding (13838730) Joanna Yarker (7199351) Rachel Lewis (246649) Eleanor Ratcliffe (13838731) Fehmidah Munir (1255383) Theresa P Wheele (13838736) Eunji Häne (13838737) Lukas Windlinger (13838740) COVID-19 remote working home office work privacy productivity teleworking Organisations have implemented intensive home-based teleworking in response to global COVID-19 lockdowns and other pandemic-related restrictions. Financial pressures are driving organisations to continue intensive teleworking after the pandemic. Understanding employees’ teleworking inclinations post COVID-19, and how these inclinations are influenced by different factors, is important to ensure any future, more permanent changes to teleworking policies are sustainable for both employees and organisations. This study, therefore, investigated the relationships between the context of home-based teleworking during the pandemic (pandemic-teleworking conditions), productivity perceptions during home-based teleworking, and employees’ future teleworking inclinations (FTI) beyond the pandemic. Specifically, the study examined whether pandemic-teleworking conditions related to the job, and the physical and social environments at home, influenced employees’ FTI, and if perceptions of improved or reduced productivity mediated these relationships. Data were collected during April and May 2020 with a cross-sectional online survey of teleworkers (n = 184) in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and other countries during the first COVID-19 lockdowns. Reported FTI were mixed. Most participants (61%) reported wanting to telework more post-pandemic compared to before the pandemic; however, 18% wanted to telework less. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis revealed that some teleworking conditions (job demands and work privacy fit) were positively associated with FTI. Other teleworking conditions (specifically, job change, job control, home office adequacy, and childcare) were not associated with FTI. Perceived changes in productivity mediated the relationship between work privacy fit and FTI. Findings highlight the role of work privacy fit and job demands in influencing pandemic productivity perceptions and teleworking inclinations post-pandemic. Results raise questions about the suitability and sustainability of home-based teleworking for all staff. As organisations plan to increase the proportion of teleworking post-pandemic, this study suggests there is a need to support employees who perceived their productivity to be poor while home-working during the pandemic. 2022-05-09T00:00:00Z Text Journal contribution 2134/21175102.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Future_teleworking_inclinations_post-COVID-19_examining_the_role_of_teleworking_conditions_and_perceived_productivity/21175102 CC BY 4.0 |
| spellingShingle | COVID-19 remote working home office work privacy productivity teleworking Clara Weber Sarah E Golding Joanna Yarker Rachel Lewis Eleanor Ratcliffe Fehmidah Munir Theresa P Wheele Eunji Häne Lukas Windlinger Future teleworking inclinations post-COVID-19: examining the role of teleworking conditions and perceived productivity |
| title | Future teleworking inclinations post-COVID-19: examining the role of teleworking conditions and perceived productivity |
| title_full | Future teleworking inclinations post-COVID-19: examining the role of teleworking conditions and perceived productivity |
| title_fullStr | Future teleworking inclinations post-COVID-19: examining the role of teleworking conditions and perceived productivity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Future teleworking inclinations post-COVID-19: examining the role of teleworking conditions and perceived productivity |
| title_short | Future teleworking inclinations post-COVID-19: examining the role of teleworking conditions and perceived productivity |
| title_sort | future teleworking inclinations post-covid-19: examining the role of teleworking conditions and perceived productivity |
| topic | COVID-19 remote working home office work privacy productivity teleworking |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/2134/21175102.v1 |