Worldwide Scientific Production on Teleworking in Scopus in Times of COVID-19

Abstract

Given the impact of COVID-19, teleworking has become an alternative work modality, so it is important to evaluate the scientific activity on the subject. Thus, the objective was to analyze the global scientific production on teleworking in times of COVID-19. Retrospective and descriptive study, whose unit of analysis was the publications on teleworking in journals indexed in the Scopus database between January 2020 and December 2021. The search was performed using the fields Article Title, Abstracts, Keywords, where 24 search terms were applied: teleworking, telecommuting, work from home, teleworking, telecommuting, work from home, online work, e-work, telecommuting, teletrabajo, trabado desde casa, trabajo online, e-trabajo, trabajo a distancia, teletrabalho, trabalho a partir de casa, trabalho em linha, trabalho electrónico, trabalho à distancia, and their relation with the term Covid-19. Likewise, 995 articles were found and 75.38% of them were original manuscripts. United States is the country with the largest scientific production with 21.21%. The Università degli Studi di Torino of Italy has published 10 papers and 80% of the articles on teleworking in times of COVID-19 have been published in quartile 1 and 2 journals. Teleworking in times of COVID-19 has been studied in several countries around the world as well as in different academic disciplines, which allows us to know progress on the subject, thereby generating policies and lines of research for the prevention of occupational hazards.
 
 Received: 8 February 2022 / Accepted: 22 April 2022 / Published: 5 July 2022

Relationships between Teleworking and Travel Behavior in the Brazilian COVID-19 Crisis

“…It was found that the percentage of people opting for remote work is directly proportional to the reduction in trips to workplaces. Indeed, studies showed that the restrictive measures imposed by COVID-19 led to a greater adoption of teleactivities (including teleworking), resulting in significant impacts on mobility [14][15][16]69]. Although no economic variables were included in the model, the potential teleworking percentage was included, and it is widely recognized that remote work is typically associated with a high level of education, and consequently, high incomes [57,59,62].…”

“…Even before the pandemic, the effects of teleactivities on travel behavior were already investigated, mainly taking into account substitution and complementarity [13]. However, the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic changed the situation to some extent: travel restrictions imposed, as a result of the restrictive measures put in place to maintain social distancing and prevent the spread of the virus, triggered teleactivities to be implemented more intensely, thus leading to an even greater impact on mobility [14][15][16]. In this context, one of the measures suggested by the World Health Organization [2] for companies to continue operating safely was the implementation of teleworking.…”

Explorando a heterogeneidade das mudanças nos padrões de mobilidade ao longo da pandemia da COVID-19: uma análise baseada em cadeias de Markov latentes em um painel de 3 anos

“…Destaca-se ainda o escopo de aplicação da maioria destas análises que se concentra majoritariamente em países desenvolvidos, especialmente na Europa Ocidental e América do Norte (Mamani-Benito et al, 2022), deixando uma lacuna de conhecimento considerável a respeito dos impactos da pandemia na mobilidade urbana do Sul Global. Em virtude da rápida urbanização e altos níveis de pobreza encontrados em países africanos, latino-americanos e asiáticos, é crucial investigar se os achados observados no Norte Global podem ser generalizados para estas outras regiões.…”

“…De acordo com Mamani-Benito et al, (2022), mais de 995 artigos foram publicados sobre este tema entre 2020 e 2021. Cerca de ¾ desses estudos consistiram em trabalhos originais, sendo que quase 85% foram conduzidos em apenas 15 países (Estados Unidos, Índia, Reino Unido, Itália, Austrália, Indonésia, Espanha, Holanda, França, China, Canadá, Romênia, Alemanha, Japão e Malásia).…”

“…Todavia, com o auxílio das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TICs), esse choque foi parcialmente suavizado por meio da substituição de algumas atividades presenciais por suas contrapartes virtuais, a exemplo do teletrabalho, do ensino remoto e das compras online (Anik e Habib, 2023;Mamani-Benito et al, 2022). Considerando o prolongamento da crise e o potencial de alteração de hábitos que eventos estruturais como este possui (Gardner, 2009;Gärling e Axhausen, 2003), perguntas importantes a respeito da emergência (e da persistência) de novos padrões de mobilidade ainda precisam ser mais respondidas (Lee e Eom, 2023).…”