Which workers bear the burden of social distancing?

Mongey, Simon; Pilossoph, Laura; Weinberg, Alexander

doi:10.1007/s10888-021-09487-6

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“…Third, families with low incomes generally experience greater social disruption compared with higher income families because of more unstable work conditions and incomes. 21 , 22 Associations between social disruption and lower SES were only heightened during the pandemic as there were disproportionately larger job losses in sectors where low-income people work such as restaurants, manufacturing, and general blue collar work across countries in our sample. 23 , 24 , 25 As a result of the impacts of social disruption by SES, it has also been shown that these experiences of job loss and income instability, which are now heightened for low-income families, contribute to feelings of stress.…”

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Screen Time in the Coronavirus 2019 Era: International Trends of Increasing Use Among 3- to 7-Year-Old Children

Ribner

Coulanges

Friedman

et al. 2021

The Journal of Pediatrics

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Objective: To evaluate changes in electronic screen-based media use in 3-to 7-year-old children across six countries as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.Study design: Between April and July 2020, parents of 2516 children completed online survey measures reporting current ("now") and retrospective ("before the pandemic") screen-based media use for the purposes of entertainment, educational app use, and socializing with family and friends. Parents also reported family socioeconomic characteristics and impacts of the pandemic to their physical wellbeing (eg, whether a family member or friend had been diagnosed with COVID-19) and social disruption (e.g., whether family experienced a loss of income or employment due to the pandemic).Results: On average, children engaged with screens over 50 minutes more during the pandemic than before. This was largely driven by increases in screen use for entertainment purposes (nearly 40 minutes) and for use of educational apps (over 20 minutes). There was no overall change in screen use for socializing with family and friends. Children from lower socioeconomic status households increased screen use both for entertainment and educational app use more so than did children from higher socioeconomic status households. Conclusions:The global pandemic caused by COVID-19 has increased overall electronic screenbased media use. As lives become increasingly digital by necessity, further research is needed to better understand positive and negative consequences of electronic screen-based media use.

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Screen Time in the Coronavirus 2019 Era: International Trends of Increasing Use Among 3- to 7-Year-Old Children

Ribner

Coulanges

Friedman

et al. 2021

The Journal of Pediatrics

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“…Working from home (WFH) has received growing attention from many scholars over recent years [1,2]. In the pandemic context, many studies have recently examined WFH, particularly from the perspective of identifying those jobs that can be performed remotely [3][4][5][6][7]. In [8], the authors explained that the working from home concept is also known as teleworking.…”

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Effects of Working from Home on Job Performance: Empirical Evidence in the Saudi Context during the COVID-19 Pandemic

et al. 2022

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This research investigated the mediating role of attitudes and perceptions between working from home (WFH) and employees’ job performance. It also explored the role of gender, education level, and job position in the relationship between specifications and facilities when working from home, as well as attitudes and perceptions. This study is exploratory and capitalizes on novel findings from a questionnaire. Data were collected from 399 employees employed by the principal Saudi businesses. The current study uses structural equation modeling to test the research hypotheses and examines the direct and indirect relationship between working from home and employees’ job performance. The results confirmed the significant direct linkage between WFH and employees’ job performance through the mediating roles of WFH employees’ attitudes and perceptions. Our findings also confirm the significant relationship between WFH employees’ attributes and their job performance, and the significant association between WFH and job performance. However, our results identified the fact that perceptions have an inverse impact on job performance. This study also provides significant theoretical and practical insights for managers who are adopting WFH. It contributes empirically to the literature by informing managers of the factors driving job performance in WFH, helping organizations to cope with the many issues related to a workforce who are working from home. Our research findings also ascertained that WFH seems likely to become a permanent managerial practice in terms of human resources, rather than a simple circumstantial measure. Moreover, this study can be considered as one of the first studies that assess the effect of WFH on employees’ job performance via a mediation role of employee attributes, in the context of Saudi firms.

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“…Occupations that necessitate proximate contact with people perpetuate the risk of infection despite infection prevention efforts, while occupations that promote work from home force employees to undergo rapid changes in their work styles [1][2][3]. These enormous risks and changes in the work environment during the COVID-19 pandemic have increased the physical and mental burden on employees and reduced their well-being [4,5].…”

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Human Augmentation Technologies for Employee Well-Being: A Research and Development Agenda

Otsuki

Kishita

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the style of work. In adapting to the changing work environment, human augmentation technologies (HAT) can provide employees with new options to support their work. However, the agenda for research and development of HAT for the new normal is still unclear. In this study, we set two research questions: (i) what type of technology demand has emerged among employees due to the COVID-19 pandemic; and (ii) what is the nature of job satisfaction experienced by employees during the COVID-19 pandemic? This study aims to clarify the technology demand and job satisfaction of employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyzed data from in-depth interviews with employees based on a grounded theory approach to answer the research questions and proposed an agenda for the research and development of HAT to enhance employees’ wellbeing in this new normal based on the crosspoint of technology demand and job satisfaction. The theoretical contribution of this study is the development of models of technology demand and job satisfaction of employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. The practical contribution is the development of a crosspoint framework to enable the development of HAT to support work while considering their impact on employees’ wellbeing.

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Which workers bear the burden of social distancing?

Cited by 195 publications

References 20 publications

Screen Time in the Coronavirus 2019 Era: International Trends of Increasing Use Among 3- to 7-Year-Old Children

Screen Time in the Coronavirus 2019 Era: International Trends of Increasing Use Among 3- to 7-Year-Old Children

Effects of Working from Home on Job Performance: Empirical Evidence in the Saudi Context during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Human Augmentation Technologies for Employee Well-Being: A Research and Development Agenda

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