Dealing with the Covid Crisis in a Professional Environment (original) (raw)

Covid-19, Workplace Challenges

Jurnal Intelek, 2021

Workplace now, workplace then, the new normal is a conceptual paper written to enlightened how organizations monitor employees' work performance from home as versus working in the office as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The objective of this article was to determine how organizations are able to measure the performance of their employees when they are working from home. Secondly, to evaluate how organizations are able to monitor virtual workload as versus traditional workload. And finally, through scrutinizing the new workplace normal articles, the author derived the third objective which is to determine how the employees balanced their work and family disputes during the Covid 19 pandemic. Several related articles were scrutinized to demonstrate the current workplace scenario as opposed to the traditional practices. At the end of the article, we proposed monitoring measures and how employees' performance can be improved during the Covid19 pandemic. Flexibility in goa...

Covid-19 and the Future of Work

Prashasan: Nepalese Journal of Public Administration

Covid-19 is going to have a profound impact on how we manage our work. The increasing tendency to decouple the workforce from the workplace is creating both challenges and opportunities. Amidst fear of decline in staff productivity, experience of this past year shows that employees working from flexible locations, including their own home, are becoming more productive than previously thought. Four major shifts are taking place in the world of work. Firstly, the concept of fixed location of an office is giving way to the idea of flexible locations leading to a reconfiguration of the traditional office. Secondly, managerial focus has moved from efficiency to resilience. Thirdly, control as a management principle is losing ground to trust leading to disintermediation and de-layering of decision-making. Finally, organizational leaders are increasingly emphasizing the need to complement technical skills with social Skills. Much innovation is taking place in all these areas. These shifts ...

Impact of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Aspects of Personal and Professional Life

The Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government, 2021

Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is officially a pandemic now. With around 30-40 % workforce working from home and around 30% unemployment expected, so far by analysts, it is becoming very important to understand the personal and professional impact that this pandemic is having on professionals.In the last weeks, alone many ICT companies have downsized, reduced pay, or stopped benefits in order to handle the economic strain caused by the pandemic while factories and manufacturing concerns have come to a halt. On a personal level, staying at home, isolation, unemployment, financial strain occurs that can cause numerous behavioral concerns. The aim of this paper is to do an exploratory study with a mix of auto ethnographic view and identify professional and personal effects both positive and negative due to the COVID-19 pandemic and repercussions for professionals. As COVID-19 is an ongoing pandemic, thereby to the best of our knowledge, no study has been conducted which explain the impac...

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on work organization

The European Journal of Applied Economics

In today's fast-paced environment, business organizations are faced with the need for introducing frequent changes in order to overcome everyday challenges and improve their performance. Organization of work is one of the key elements in the adjustment to market changes, and the basis of enterprise transformation. Apart from continuous market competition, the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts have brought about a special type of business challenge. The new situation requires even stronger cooperation between management and employees, trusting relationship and understanding of necessary changes in order to maintain business continuity in very challenging pandemic conditions. Emergencies and numerous changes in response to a challenging situation can very often disrupt normal business organization and operation. This study focuses on the role of remote work (working from home) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The theoretical framework of this paper is based on the relationship betwee...

The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Work Organisation

2021

In today's fast-moving environment, business organisations are faced with the need for frequent changes in order to overcome everyday challenges and improve their performance. Organisation of work is one of the key elements in the adjustment to the market changes, and the basis of enterprise transformation. Apart from continuous market competition, the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences have brought about a special type of business challenge. The new circumstances require an even more pronounced alignment between management and employees, their full connection and understanding of necessary changes, in order to maintain business continuity in very challenging pandemic conditions. Emergencies and numerous changes in response to a challenging situation can very often disrupt normal arrangement or functioning of business. This study focuses on the role of remote work (working from home) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The theoretical framework of this paper is based on the relationship between technology, agile organisations and working from home during the coronavirus crisis.

COVID-19 RETURN TO WORKPLACE MODEL

Public Safety Management Series, 2020

In the past two months the world has been on a lockdown with the only notable creatures free being the wild ones which include wild humans ignoring glaring risks they are exposed to. However, recently many businesses and companies are reopening to continue with their core activities and to make up for the lost time. In Africa the governments of various countries are easing up movement after the hyped mass deaths projected regionally and abroad did not materialize. It is now opining on most leaders and workplaces, that this is a disease that requires the workplaces to adapt and partner with to ensure the workers do not become real partners of the feared coronavirus commonly praised as COVID-19. In Kenya, the workplaces came to a standstill with the only workers being activated comprising of the medical practitioners, the security agencies, and the food chain vendors both public and private entities. The officials at the Kenyan ministry of health had projected a figure of 10 thousand infections at the on-set of May 2020 in their daily 3PM briefs sometimes in March 2020. This project did not come to pass and as at mid May 2020, the figures for those confirmed with COVID-19 stood at 781 cases with 284 recoveries and 45 deaths. This figure presented a below the line project figure in Kenya and African in general. In the light of these developments, the government has slowly decided to open up the environment albeit with restrictions to enable the economy pick up. For workplaces, it is important to have a reopening plan that will encompass living with coronavirus within the workplace. Therefore strict guidelines and procedures should be followed. This model therefore gives a possible solution to workplaces intending to recall employees who have been working from home.

Remote working in the period of the COVİD-19

Journal of Psychological Research

Working remotely was an option for the employees before the Covid-19 pandemic. However, it's become a new working format and compulsory for the white collars to work at home. Even if it seems attractive at first look, the new format of working style actually has caused lots of problems especially on employees' mental health. The social life, private comfort zone, and working environment of the workers have mixed with each other and the equilibrium among them which gave certainty and predictability is totally broken now. Actually, the employees started to search for a new normal and balance in the pandemic. I am planning to focus on the new psychological problems that popped up in the pandemic with regard to remote working. Basing on four main feelings which are stress, anxiety, uncertainty, and loneliness, it is structured to focus on the problems which are the broken balance between work and family, the problem of workload and over-working, the future ambiguity about the ca...

Technology During Covid 19: Boon or a Curse

International Journal of Management, Public Policy and Research

Coronavirus outbreak has significantly changed how we see work from home (WFH), which is presently a considerably more broadly acknowledged practice. This would appear on a superficial level to be an equalizer move. This paper is an attempt to look at the WFH from academician’s point of view. The virtual method of working is getting progressively well-known because of its potential for cost-savings; it is additionally a route for an association to be more dexterous and adjust to emergencies, for example, worldwide pandemics. Restrictions on movements and closure of offices during Covid-19 forced people to remain confined at home. This along with ample free time made many get accustomed to the Internet in an unprecedented way. When almost every business derailed, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) saw an exponential increase in usage. Thanks to the Internet, office work got done at home. Until a few years back, having a telephone or mobile, computer, printer, Wi-Fi passw...

Working in the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study

Journal on Interactive Systems, 2021

The restrictions of social isolation adopted to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic have led many companies to adopt remote work in a mandatory and unplanned way. This sudden transition has caused profound changes in personal and professional relationships. In this article, we present the results of a qualitative observational study on the adaptations made in the activities of the software development process of two companies. These adaptations were intended to support the transition to teleworking during the pandemic. They were analyzed based on the theoretical framework of Olson and Olson for distributed collaboration. Software developers’ motivations and observed challenges are also presented. Based on these results, the article presents recommendations to facilitate the adaptation to remote work in software development teams.

Working from home during COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned and issues

Management & Marketing. Challenges for the Knowledge Society

During the COVID pandemic, many companies, schools, and public organizations all around the world asked their employees to work from home i.e. to adopt what are called “smart working” modalities. This has and will presumably have a serious impact on both employees and employers, which still needs to be clarified and investigated: indeed, if smart working becomes a common working modality, this may have a significant impact on both organizations and employees. This paper reports the results of an online survey of “smart workers” in Italy during the COVID pandemic, when a great number of employees suddenly moved to working from home with no or little preparation. The study offers interesting indications about the involvement and usefulness perception of smart working by the sampled people and makes it possible to single out different categories of employees based on their attitude towards this modality. Also, it points out the potential impact on socialization among colleagues, and th...