Abstract
Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, guidelines for people’s confinement have been implemented to prevent the disease’s spread. As a result of this, companies have implemented teleworking as an emerging way to work from home using information technology. This cross-sectional study was conducted in Ecuador, with a sample of 204 teleworkers in the city of Quito. The results show that the teleworkers rearranged their bedrooms to carry out their activities. The respondents in each age group stated they did not perceive more significant ailments than those experienced before beginning teleworking. The relationships between the variables were analyzed utilizing the Chi-Square test and Fisher’s exact test, finding a relationship between neck ailments and age of p = 0.031 * and between arm/forearm ailments of p = 0.032 *. This study contributes to a greater understanding of the ergonomic situation of the teleworkers and provides us with information to mitigate the ergonomic risks to which they are exposed.
Highlights
The results show that the teleworkers rearranged their bedrooms to carry out their activities
This study presents the results obtained from the descriptive analysis of the frequencies of responses obtained for each category
It was determined by data related to temporary ergonomics that most of the respondents have worked more than 4 h per day for seven months, which means that workers are subjected to the probability of suffering from various health alterations in the future due to the intensive use of the video display terminal [16,17,20]
Summary
The results show that the teleworkers rearranged their bedrooms to carry out their activities. The “new normal” is a term used by several countries in the world, by the government of Spain [8], by world leaders of the World Health Organization [9], and the Prime Minister of Canada [10]. They coincide in pointing out that its determining factors include the social distancing of humanity, the use of masks, the limitation of the concentration of people in closed places, and the establishment of rigid aseptic norms, among other things. In most cases, this new work environment does not have the optimal infrastructure that meets the elementary standards of comfort for the productive activity entrusted to it [2,12]
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