Privacy Regulation Theory

Weber, Clara; Gatersleben, Birgitta; Degenhardt, Barbara

doi:10.1201/9781003128830-6

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“…back to the wall, facing a window, behind a large plant), in contrast to the lack of privacy in open-plan offices. These explanations and the fact that the employees rated their perceived individual privacy to be significantly higher in the ABW make it clear that ABWs can address all four work-related privacy dimensions proposed by Weber et al (2021): limited distractions, limited interruptions, task/visual privacy and conversation/acoustic privacy.…”

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“…For Altman, employees have a high degree of privacy if they can choose whether they are open to information being communicated to them (input) and if they can seek help from colleagues to solve problems (output). Weber et al (2021) also saw privacy as an exchange between persons and their environments and identified the following work-related privacy dimensions: distractions, interruptions, task/visual privacy and conversation/acoustic privacy.…”

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Balancing privacy and communication in activity-based workspaces: a longitudinal study

Rücker

Eismann

Meinel

et al. 2022

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Purpose The aim of this study is to investigate whether activity-based workspaces (ABWs) are able to solve the privacy-communication trade-off known from fixed-desk offices. In fixed-desk offices, employees work in private or open-plan offices (or in combi-offices) with fixed workstations, which support either privacy or communication, respectively. However, both dimensions are essential to effective employee performance, which creates the dilemma known as the privacy-communication trade-off. In activity-based workspaces, flexible workstations and the availability of different spaces may solve this dilemma, but clear empirical evidence on the matter is unavailable. Design/methodology/approach To address this knowledge gap, the authors surveyed knowledge workers (N = 363) at a medium-sized German company at three time points (T1–T3) over a one-year period during the company’s move from a fixed-desk combi-office (a combination of private and open-plan offices with fixed workplaces) to an ABW. Using a quantitative survey, the authors evaluated the employees’ perceived privacy and perceived communication in the old (T1) and the new work environments (T2 and T3). Findings The longitudinal study revealed a significant increase in employees’ perceived privacy and perceived communication in the ABW. These increases remained stable in the long term, which implies that ABWs have a lasting positive impact on employees. Originality/value As the privacy and communication dimensions were previously considered mutually exclusive in a single workplace, the results confirm that ABWs can balance privacy and communication, providing optimal conditions for enhanced employee performance.

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Balancing privacy and communication in activity-based workspaces: a longitudinal study

Rücker

Eismann

Meinel

et al. 2022

JCRE

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“…Work privacy fit 1 addresses the home office from a socio-spatial level to determine its adequacy to fulfil work privacy needs (Weber et al, 2021). Work privacy fit is a multidimensional conceptualisation and operationalisation of work privacy, which 1 There is a conceptual and psychometric difference between privacy fit and work-privacy/privacy-work interference; the latter refers to work-family/familywork interference (Meyer et al, 2021).…”

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“…Lack of privacy is a huge health and performance concern in office research (cf. Weber et al, 2021). We focus in this study on work privacy fit, which is rooted in Person-Environment fit theory and describes the congruence between the desired and the actual level of work privacy.…”

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“…Workers attempt to achieve the best possible fit between their actual and desired levels of input/stimuli from their colleagues and output they make to their colleagues. As outlined in the privacy fit theory, work-and health-related outcomes can be maximised if environmental characteristics can be organised in a way that supports individual privacy needs (Weber, 2019;Weber et al, 2021). However, work privacy fit and its predictors during pandemic teleworking has been almost neglected.…”

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Work fatigue during COVID-19 lockdown teleworking: the role of psychosocial, environmental, and social working conditions

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BackgroundDuring national lockdowns in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, previously office-based workers who transitioned to home-based teleworking faced additional demands (e.g., childcare, inadequate homeworking spaces) likely resulting in poor work privacy fit. Previous office research suggests poor work privacy fit is associated with lower wellbeing and higher work fatigue. Emerging evidence suggests a relationship between childcare duties during pandemic teleworking and work fatigue. In addition to psychosocial working conditions (job demand, job control, and job change management), which are acknowledged predictors of work fatigue, this poses a significant threat to occupational health during pandemic teleworking. However, the relative effects of aspects of the psychosocial environment (job demands and resources), the home office environment (including privacy fit), and the social environment (childcare) on work fatigue as well as their interactions are under-explored.ObjectiveThis study examined the relationships between the psychosocial, environmental, and social working conditions of teleworking during the first COVID-19 lockdown and work fatigue. Specifically, the study examined teleworkers’ physical work environment (e.g., if and how home office space is shared, crowding, and noise perceptions) as predictors of privacy fit and the relationship between privacy fit, childcare, psychosocial working conditions (job demand, job control, and job change management), and work fatigue. Work privacy fit was hypothesized to mediate the relationship between childcare and work fatigue.MethodsAn online cross-sectional survey was conducted with teleworkers (n = 300) during the first COVID-19 lockdown in April and May 2020; most participants were in Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.ResultsPath analysis was used to examine the hypothesized relationships. Privacy fit was lower for those reporting greater levels of noise in home-working spaces and those feeling crowded at home. Work fatigue was lower amongst those with greater privacy fit and higher amongst those with high levels of job demand. An indirect relationship was observed between childcare and work fatigue with privacy fit mediating this relationship.ConclusionThe influence of privacy fit has so far been largely neglected in research on teleworking, especially during the pandemic. However, its contribution to workers’ wellbeing should be acknowledged in occupational health strategies.

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Exploring Novel Frontiers in Online Privacy Ethics

Gavrilov

2024

Security and Privacy

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Social networks have become a new environment in which a large part of our daily life has been transposed. It has become a new research environment and tool for two reasons: It is easy and cheap to use and offers the chance to provide a large amount of novelty. However, questions arise as people navigate privacy on social media differently than in real life, meaning, less intuitively and over a longer time. With this in mind, this study examines how people perceive privacy on social networks and how collecting data without consent violates users' privacy rights, even when the information is public. For this, we focus on the Romanian case study and explore new perspectives on online research to uphold human rights and maintain research objectivity. The results show that managing privacy online is not intuitive, and it requires time for the users to understand how their data can be accessed and used, and to learn the tools they can employ to limit other's access to personal information. We also have found that the majority of our study participants see social networks as a tool for socialization and the use of their information outside this purpose violates their privacy rights. The paper proposes a set of principles and markers to help researchers differentiate between personal and public information to comply with research ethics and not breach human rights.

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Privacy Regulation Theory

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Balancing privacy and communication in activity-based workspaces: a longitudinal study

Balancing privacy and communication in activity-based workspaces: a longitudinal study

Work fatigue during COVID-19 lockdown teleworking: the role of psychosocial, environmental, and social working conditions

Exploring Novel Frontiers in Online Privacy Ethics

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