The virtues of COVID‐19 pandemic: How working from home can make us the best (or the worst) version of ourselves

Rocchi, Marta; Bernacchio, Caleb

doi:10.1111/basr.12282

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“…First, a smart home can ensure higher efficiency in carrying out home micro-tasks, such as switching lights and plugs on and off, manually adjusting the temperature and turning sound on/off. Whilst remote workers typically lose time when they switch between work and home activities (Rocchi and Bernacchio, 2022), smart home appliances enable individuals to implement home micro-tasks without their involvement. Thus, the use of technology can increase personal efficiency (Marikyan et al, 2019).…”

Section: Work Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Working in a smart home environment: examining the impact on productivity, well-being and future use intention

Marikyan

Papagiannidis

Rana

et al. 2023

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PurposeThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a big impact on organisations globally, leaving organisations with no choice but to adapt to the new reality of remote work to ensure business continuity. Such an unexpected reality created the conditions for testing new applications of smart home technology whilst working from home. Given the potential implications of such applications to improve the working environment, and a lack of research on that front, this paper pursued two objectives. First, the paper explored the impact of smart home applications by examining the factors that could contribute to perceived productivity and well-being whilst working from home. Second, the study investigated the role of productivity and well-being in motivating the intention of remote workers to use smart home technologies in a home-work environment in the future.Design/methodology/approachThe study adopted a cross-sectional research design. For data collection, 528 smart home users working from home during the pandemic were recruited. Collected data were analysed using a structural equation modelling approach.FindingsThe results of the research confirmed that perceived productivity is dependent on service relevance, perceived usefulness, innovativeness, hedonic beliefs and control over environmental conditions. Perceived well-being correlates with task-technology fit, service relevance, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, attitude to smart homes, innovativeness, hedonic beliefs and control over environmental conditions. Intention to work from a smart home-office in the future is dependent on perceived well-being.Originality/valueThe findings of the research contribute to the organisational and smart home literature, by providing missing evidence about the implications of the application of smart home technologies for employees' perceived productivity and well-being. The paper considers the conditions that facilitate better outcomes during remote work and could potentially be used to improve the work environment in offices after the pandemic. Also, the findings inform smart home developers about the features of technology which could improve the developers' application in contexts beyond home settings.

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Section: Work Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Working in a smart home environment: examining the impact on productivity, well-being and future use intention

Marikyan

Papagiannidis

Rana

et al. 2023

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“…However, e-commerce and attractive web design can generate a lack of steadiness in industry and frugality in consumers, inducing loss of time and productive work due to excessive netsurfing in e-commerce websites. This attitude promotes laziness, which is directly opposed to industriousness (Rocchi & Bernacchio, 2022), thus also to steadiness as element of Smithian prudence.…”

Section: Adam Smith’s Virtue Of Prudence In the E-commerce Societymentioning

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“…Individuals can choose to establish what the effects of the availability of e-commerce platforms on their moral habits are. What is interesting to note is that specific circumstances can actually help develop particular kinds of virtues, or promote specific vices (see Rocchi & Bernacchio, 2022, with regard to working from home as context to develop some virtues/vices). In our analysis, it is e-commerce that makes available some modes of action which stimulate the reinforcement of existing good or bad habits of character, without creating them.…”

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Adam Smith’s Virtue of Prudence in E-Commerce: A Conceptual Framework for Users in the E-Commercial Society

Schlag,

Rocchi,

Turnbull

2023

Business & Society

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As founder of modern political economics and prominent theorist of the commercial society, Adam Smith’s importance is universally recognized. Little, however, has been done so far to develop Adam Smith’s virtue ethics in the context of modern business, characterized by digitalization. This article aims to rediscover Adam Smith’s virtue of prudence and its relevance for the “e-commercial society”: It presents a framework that considers the central place of prudence in the relationship between a prosperous e-commercial system and societal flourishing. In Smith’s view of the commercial society, prudence enables people to develop habits of character related to industriousness, genuineness, spirit of sacrifice, and self-command, which help in the conduct of a prosperous business activity. This article translates Smith’s virtue of prudence into a language typical of consumers in the current e-commerce scenario, considering their development as persons and the contribution of their activities to the good of society.

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Digital Technologies and the Future of Work: An Agent-Centred Ethical Perspective Based on Goods, Norms, and Virtues

Rocchi

Bernacchio

2023

Palgrave Studies in Digital Business &Amp; Enabling Technologies

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The ethical analysis related to the impact of digital technologies on the future of work needs to be conducted considering the theoretical diversity of ethics. After reviewing prominent existing approaches to ethics (utilitarianism, deontological ethics, virtue ethics), this chapter suggests the need for an agent-centred ethical perspective based on goods, norms, and virtues for the evaluation of ethical issues related to digital technologies and their impact on the future of work. Different examples illustrate the merits of this approach, helping to untangle complex issues concerning the relationship between the nature and scope of digital technologies, regulatory needs within the new social and technological context, and the intentions and attitudes of workers towards their work, their personal flourishing, and their contribution to the good of society.

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The virtues of COVID‐19 pandemic: How working from home can make us the best (or the worst) version of ourselves

Cited by 4 publications

References 36 publications

Working in a smart home environment: examining the impact on productivity, well-being and future use intention

Working in a smart home environment: examining the impact on productivity, well-being and future use intention

Adam Smith’s Virtue of Prudence in E-Commerce: A Conceptual Framework for Users in the E-Commercial Society

Digital Technologies and the Future of Work: An Agent-Centred Ethical Perspective Based on Goods, Norms, and Virtues

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