Data on Austrian Company's Productivity in the Pre-Covid-19 Era, During the Lockdown and After Ist Easing: To Work Remotely or Not?

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.641199" target="_blank" >10.3389/fcomm.2021.641199</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Data on Austrian Company's Productivity in the Pre-Covid-19 Era, During the Lockdown and After Ist Easing: To Work Remotely or Not?

Original language description

The Covid-19 crisis across the world has increased the proportion of e-working. Thetransition from cubicles to the home office raised many questions in connection withcompanies adopting the new working conditions. Our paper provides recent evidenceon the extent of this move, its impact on workplace evolution, productivity and the futureprevalence of the face-to-display workplace after the easing of the lockdown. It usesdata from 154 service employees of an Austrian sports and leisure product companyobtained using online surveys on employees’ opinions on e-working. By a coincidence,we conducted the first of them shortly prior to the epidemic. We decided to modify ourplanned research goals and decided to study their opinions during different Covid-19stages. As a result, our findings do not follow all the academic standards. First, theyare almost impossible to replicate due to the specific coincidence. Then, the shift in ouraims leads us to minor changes in the content of the questionnaire. There are not onlysignificant differences in the proportion of workers in the office and at home during thedifferent periods of the lockdown. After its end, there was asignificant increase in thenumber of those who had started working at home—more than one half. Compared tothe period prior to the lockdown, they have a tolerant attitude to their work from home andbelieve that their productivity might remain the same. For many of them the change wasan unavoidable obligation so they would prefer to return to the traditional workplace. Theresults suggest that more than one fifth want to continue working from home permanently,about one third more frequently than before, more than a quarter sometimes and justone seventh not at all. We studied the issues related to theirproductivity and its limitsduring all three stages. There are three important reasons for the fall in productivity relatedto e-working: (1) Providing childcare/home schooling, petsitting and/or care for otherswhile working (&gt;one-fourth); (2) Work-from-home routine (&gt;one-fourth); and (3) Havingless work to do (&gt;one-fifth).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50204 - Business and management

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Communication

ISSN

2297-900X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

16 03 2021

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000678146100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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