Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic is a unique transboundary crisis which has disrupted people’s way of life more dramatically than any event in generations. Given the ambiguity surrounding the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and its enduring negative effects, it is important to understand how this has affected important future of work trends. The aim of the current paper is to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on commonly discussed future of work trends relevant to occupational safety and health priority areas. These topics include work arrangements, compensation and benefits, and the organization of work. For each topic, we assess trends leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic, discuss the impact of the pandemic on these trends, and conclude with implications for research and practice. Overall, the pandemic appears to have both accelerated and disrupted various trends associated with future of work topic areas. These effects are discussed in terms of implications for both policymakers and organizations.
Highlights
Landmark events are those events that are said to change history
As of the writing of this paper, over 4.5 million people worldwide have died from COVID-19, and a new variant is rapidly surging in the United States
Public Health 2021, 18, 10199 impact occupational safety and health priorities related to worker well-being
Summary
Landmark events are those events that are said to change history. The COVID-19 pandemic (pandemic), already in its second year, will certainly stand as one such event. We leverage available data to examine how the pandemic is shifting trends in the United States surrounding work arrangements; policies, compensation, and benefits; and the organization of work. We identified these themes as major disruptions sparked by the pandemic that are associated with future of work topics and have the potential to. Public Health 2021, 18, 10199 impact occupational safety and health priorities related to worker well-being These are topics for which empirical data exists to facilitate the comparison of trends. We conclude this paper by offering several overarching insights about the ways that research and practice priorities related to the future of work may need to change due to the pandemic
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