Work From Home or Bring Home the Work? Burnout and Procrastination in Brazilian Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Arenas, Daniel Luccas; Viduani, Anna; Bassols, Ana Margareth Siqueira; Hauck, Simone

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“…Furthermore, Arenas et al (2022) provided more evidence on the positive impacts of WFH, as the study found that telecommuting was more beneficial than working faceto-face, even though it may lead to higher levels of procrastination [6]. There were no differences in burnout levels.…”

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Research on Telework Changes Employees’ Stress Levels during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Specific Potential Stressors are Influencing the General Well-being of Employees

Jiang¹

2022

Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)

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Due to the expansion of COVID-19, a growing number of employees are forced to use telework as a new strategy to cope with the problem of continuing work during this sudden and serious pandemic. Though the research was to investigate the influences of telework on people's well-being in general, the question is under this special pandemic situation, how this sudden transition in the working environment will lead to changes in employees' stress levels specifically. Therefore, this article concentrated on the stress levels and aims to figure out how exactly telework influences employees' stress levels during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, this article also tries to shed light on whether corporations could consider telework as a work-mode choice for employees to better improve their working efficiency. To a global extent, meta-analysis is used in this article to assess the detailed evidence of the ways that the stress level of emplyees were influenced by telework during this pandemic. Three main factors were summarized that largely affect stress levels by combing 6171 participants. Results showed a positive correlation between telework and the stress level of employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, stress levels of employees during forced telework were mainly determined by work-life balance, work-home conflicts, and social interactions, which were significantly correlated with their working efficiency.

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“…There were no differences in burnout levels. Importantly, they pointed out that work-life balances played a crucial role on the general stress level of the employees [6].…”

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Research on Telework Changes Employees’ Stress Levels during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Specific Potential Stressors are Influencing the General Well-being of Employees

Jiang¹

2022

Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)

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“…Procrastination is a detrimental behavior that has become an emerging topic of research in the management field during the COVID-19 pandemic. The disruptive changes and amplified uncertainty in daily life associated with the pandemic have provoked the emergence of emotional distress (Arenas et al , 2022). To avoid and deal with these unfavorable affective experiences, people tend to procrastinate on other compulsory tasks and are distracted from their own tasks.…”

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“…Moreover, the hospitality management field should devote much consideration to procrastination, and there is a need to develop strategies to inhibit procrastination. As mentioned above, procrastination has been derived from increased emotional stress during the COVID-19 pandemic (Arenas et al , 2022). Furthermore, harmonious passion has been examined in prior studies as a positive emotional resource for coping up with emotional distress (Lafrenière et al , 2009).…”

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Harmonious passion and procrastination: an exploration based on actor–partner interdependence model

Zhang

Shen

Yang

et al. 2023

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Purpose Considering the potential economic losses this might bring about, researchers have begun to explore ways to mitigate procrastination. Drawing on the job demands-resources model and the spillover-crossover model, this study aims to investigate the association between harmonious passion and procrastination at the intra- and interpersonal levels. Design/methodology/approach This study used a two-wave multisource questionnaire survey to acquire 256 cases nested in 128 coworker dyads from two hotels in Shanghai. Multilevel analysis and the actor–partner interdependence model were adopted to examine the hypotheses. Findings The results indicate that employees’ harmonious passion is indirectly negatively associated with procrastination (i.e., cyberslacking and soldiering) through workplace well-being at the intrapersonal level; employees’ harmonious passion is indirectly negatively associated with their coworkers’ procrastination (i.e., cyberslacking and soldiering) through the coworkers’ workplace well-being; and the crossover influence of employees’ harmonious passion on coworkers’ workplace well-being is contingent upon interpersonal conflict at the dyadic level, such that the crossover influence is stronger in condition of low rather than high interpersonal conflict. Practical implications Hotels are suggested to provide training programs to employees for enhancing their capabilities to maintain harmonious passion and promote their communication skills to decrease the likelihood to experience interpersonal conflict. Originality/value This study offers a comprehensive insight into the association between harmonious passion and procrastination in hospitality employees, which extends the understanding of the outcomes of harmonious passion and the profit of harmonious passion at the interpersonal level.

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“…Procrastinationthe act of delaying tasksappears to be particularly important in teleworking as it may hinder or facilitate workers' well-being, satisfaction and performance (e.g. Arenas et al, 2022;Muller and Niessen, 2019;Wang et al, 2021). Procrastination is a trait that leads to daily procrastinating behaviors and affects between 15 and 20% of working adults (Harriott and Ferrari, 1996); at work, it is characterized by being a self-regulatory failure of tasks and is associated with high costs for the individual (e.g.…”

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Procrastination is not only a “thief of time”, but also a thief of happiness: it buffers the beneficial effects of telework on well-being via daily micro-events of IT workers

Silva

Neves

Caetano

2022

IJM

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PurposeThis study draws on the affective events theory (AET) to understand how telework may influence workers' well-being. Hence this study aimed to (1) analyze the indirect relationship between telework and well-being via daily micro-events (DME), and (2) test whether procrastination would moderate this indirect effect.Design/methodology/approachTo test the goals, data were gathered from a sample of teleworkers in the IT sector (N = 232). To analyze the data, a moderated mediation analysis was performed in SPSS with PROCESS macro.FindingsThe results showed that micro-daily events mediated the positive relationship between telework and well-being; however, this relation was conditional upon the levels of workers' levels of procrastination, that is, this link became weaker for those who were procrastinators.Practical implicationsBy highlighting the importance of telework, DME and procrastination, this study offers managers distinct strategies for enhancing their employees' well-being.Originality/valueDespite the existing research investigating the effect of telework on well-being, studies investigating the intervening mechanisms between these two constructs are scarce. Moreover, there is a lack of research investigating the moderating effect of procrastination in these relations. Hence, this study fills these gaps and advances knowledge on the process that explains how (via DME) and when (when procrastination is low) teleworking influences workers' well-being.

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Work From Home or Bring Home the Work? Burnout and Procrastination in Brazilian Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 9 publications

References 48 publications

Research on Telework Changes Employees’ Stress Levels during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Specific Potential Stressors are Influencing the General Well-being of Employees

Research on Telework Changes Employees’ Stress Levels during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Specific Potential Stressors are Influencing the General Well-being of Employees

Harmonious passion and procrastination: an exploration based on actor–partner interdependence model

Procrastination is not only a “thief of time”, but also a thief of happiness: it buffers the beneficial effects of telework on well-being via daily micro-events of IT workers

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