Working from Home: How We Managed Our Team Remotely with Technology

Rysavy, Monica; Michalak, Russell

doi:10.1080/01930826.2020.1760569

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“…The sudden change has negative impacts and disproportionally affects lower-paid and female workers, which must be taken into account when considering working from home arrangements (Avdiu & Nayyar, 2020). Rysavy and Michalak (2020), in a self-confessional piece, explained how they worked from home as librarians using technologies such as Slack for team collaboration, FlipGrid for daily video updates, Notion for project planning, and Sharepoint for file sharing. They found the transition less disruptive because they already used many digital tools to aid in asynchronous collaboration.…”

Section: Remote E-working and Covid-19mentioning

confidence: 99%

An affordance perspective of team collaboration and enforced working from home during COVID-19

Waizenegger

McKenna

Cai

et al. 2020

European Journal of Information Systems

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COVID-19 has caused unprecedented challenges to our lives. Many governments have forced people to stay at home, leading to a radical shift from on-site to virtual collaboration for many knowledge workers. Existing remote working literature does not provide a thorough explanation of government-enforced working from home situations. Using an affordance lens, this study explores the sudden and enforced issues that COVID-19 has presented, and the technological means knowledge workers use to achieve their team collaboration goals. We interviewed 29 knowledge workers about their experiences of being required to work from home and introduced the term "enforced work from home". This paper contributes to the affordance theory by providing an understanding of the substitution of affordances for team collaboration during COVID-19. The shifting of affordances results in positive and negative effects on team collaboration as various affordances of technology were perceived and actualised to sustain "business as usual".

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Section: Remote E-working and Covid-19mentioning

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An affordance perspective of team collaboration and enforced working from home during COVID-19

Waizenegger

McKenna

Cai

et al. 2020

European Journal of Information Systems

454

450

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“…As we shared in our previous column (Rysavy & Michalak, 2020), Slack tremendously improved our team's communication. We substituted emails for messaging in Slack while working remotely.…”

Section: Slackmentioning

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“…At the beginning of the working from home period, we made one rule for Slack: "Check Slack!" (Rysavy & Michalak, 2020). As a result, our staff always had Slack open and for the most part, responded promptly to requests for a status update about a project.…”

Section: Slackmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In our previous column (Rysavy & Michalak, 2020), we shared how we were using Slack, Zoom Calls, and FlipGrid to help us communicate and Notion to help us manage our teams (two departments-the Hirons Library & Learning Center [HLLC] and the Office of Institutional Research & Training [OIRT]) as our college worked remotely due to the state of Delaware's COVID-19's required remote employment.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…But first, let's talk about the benefits and the challenges we experienced when using the tools that we introduced to you in our last column (Rysavy & Michalak, 2020) to manage our team remotely. These tools have helped us to streamline and made communicated more challenging as we interact with our staff and manage our staff's projects.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Managing Remote Projects Effectively with an Action Dashboard

Michalak

Rysavy

2020

Journal of Library Administration

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COLUMN EDITORS' NOTE This JLA column posits that academic libraries and their services are dominated by information technologies, and that the success of librarians and professional staff is contingent on their ability to thrive in this technology-rich environment. The column will appear in odd-numbered issues of the journal, and it will delve into all aspects of library-related information technologies and knowledge management used to connect users to information resources, including data preparation, discovery, delivery and preservation.

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Home‐based e‐working under COVID‐19 pandemic conditions: Insights from corporate organizations in Ghana

Owusu-Oware

2022

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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The COVID‐19 pandemic outbreak and the subsequent lockdowns and restrictions by many countries worldwide to control the spread of the virus forced several organizations to shift work to homes, aided by digital technologies. However, digital infrastructure and homeworking space, which facilitate home‐based e‐working, are constrained in the developing world. It is, therefore, crucial to understand how developing country organizations maintain business operations under pandemic situations using home‐based e‐working and the challenges it poses. This study employs interpretive qualitative research methodology with a socio‐technical perspective to explore home‐based e‐working under COVID‐19 conditions using five reputable corporate organizations in Ghana. Findings from the study show that home‐based e‐working under pandemic conditions can be seen as a business continuity strategy that requires business continuity policy and plan, digital infrastructure and platforms, and cybersecurity. The findings also identified the challenges as partial work virtualization, cybercrime, transition cost, digital divide, and home environment constraints. The findings have implications for research and organizational management in developing countries.

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Working from Home: How We Managed Our Team Remotely with Technology

Cited by 70 publications

References 1 publication

An affordance perspective of team collaboration and enforced working from home during COVID-19

An affordance perspective of team collaboration and enforced working from home during COVID-19

Managing Remote Projects Effectively with an Action Dashboard

Home‐based e‐working under COVID‐19 pandemic conditions: Insights from corporate organizations in Ghana

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