Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has already had an enormous impact on numerous aspects of human society such as health, education, economy, business, or work and created favorable conditions for the expansion of teleworking. The aim of the paper is to identify and analyze five teleworking impact factors that affect thewellbeing and productivity of employees. The data were gathered by a quantitative research method through a questionnaire applied to 327 Romanian employees who hold a Bachelor or Master degree. Firstly, they were analyzed and interpreted through a factorial analysis focusing on the five teleworking impact factors. Secondly, the authors carried on cluster analysis, followed by multiple linear regression, using R statistical software. This study shows that there is a plethora of factors that influence the wellbeing and productivity of employees: individual and societal factors, organizational and work-related factors, technological factors, social factors at home, and social factors at work. Also, the cluster analysis brings to light significant differences between various Romanian employees such as: their gender, income, age, education, and city size.
Highlights
Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has already had an enormous impact on numerous aspects of human society such as health, education, economy, business, or work
Did your require IT support from your company, during teleworking?* Are you able to finish your tasks during the working schedule?* How do you evaluate your work P during teleworking in comparison with working from the office?*
Based on the above data, the results of our analysis show that clusters 2 and 3 are fairly similar with regard to the last 3 teleworking impact factors identified in the previous analysis whereas cluster 1 stands out quite a bite
Summary
Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has already had an enormous impact on numerous aspects of human society such as health, education, economy, business, or work. The spread of the coronavirus disease and the severe nationwide lockdowns have led to several changes in the way businesses are operating around the world. At the beginning of 2020, with the outbreak of coronavirus disease, many worldwide governments recommended that companies facilitate teleworking to avoid employees gathering together in the same place (Belzunegui-Eraso and Erro-Garcés, 2020). On March 16, 2020, Romanian authorities declared a state of emergency and asked companies to promote teleworking as a measure to protect their employees and to reduce the threats of coronavirus. The crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic made it suddenly experience a rebound. The mass introduction of the rapid advances in information and communication technologies has brought productivity gains and cost reductions for business organizations
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