DigiFuehr 2.0: Novel insights for digital leadership

Claassen, Kevin; Anjos, Dominique Rodil dos; Kettschau, Jan P.; Wrede, Sammy J.S.; Broding, Horst Christoph

doi:10.1002/1348-9585.12383

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“…Wrede et al ( 2021 ) show that within the German public administration setting (among others) older age, feeling overwhelmed, as well as resignation, are significant risk factors for digital stress. While at the beginning of the two phase study, a minority of employees across the municipalities used home office, the proportion rose to 76.4 percent during the pandemic (Claassen et al, 2022 ). In the first phase of survey results, Wrede et al ( 2021 ) found that about 10 percent of employees are digitally stressed.…”

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Impact of digital stress on negative emotions and physical complaints in the home office: a follow up study

Wrede,

Claassen,

Rodil dos Anjos

et al. 2023

Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine

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Background Due to the COVID-19 pandemic many employees perform under increasingly digital conditions. Enabling home office environments became mandatory for companies wherever possible in consideration of the ongoing pandemic. Simultaneously, studies reported on digital stress. The current literature lacks rigorous research into digital stress on psychosomatic outcomes, emotions, and disease. Therefore, we endeavor to understand how digital stress developed over the course of the pandemic and if it predicts differences in negative emotions and physical complaints in the home office setting. Methods To answer the research question, we conducted an online survey among 441 employees in 2020 and 398 employees in 2022 from three municipal administrations in Germany, who were working from home at least occasionally. We used a cluster analysis to detect digitally stressed employees. Regression analyses were performed on digital stress, negative emotions, and physical complaints. Results The analysis revealed an increase from 9 to 20% in digital stress, while negative emotions and physical complaints did not show evident differences. In the multivariate model, we observe a change in the proportion of digitally stressed employees between 4 and 17%, while the control variables explain around 9%. Conclusions Digital stress did not significantly affect either negative emotions or physical complaints. However, digital stress appeared to exert a more substantial predictive influence on negative emotions. The study emphasizes rising digital stress, which contradicts a positive adaption to the digital working conditions within the observed period. The psychosomatic relations are low or lagged. Further research investigating digital stress and countermeasures, especially to understand how to prevent harmful long-term effects such as distress resulting from working from home conditions, is needed.

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