Abstract
In the current scenario of public health crisis, the work environment has become the Home Office. The present article has the objective of performing a case study, in the form of an opinion survey, about the ergonomics of the academic community of a higher education institution that started to work in a home office regime, aiming to study the impacts related to the transition from work outside the home to the home office due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The present work consists of a descriptive research of the case study type using a form, whose data were treated quantitatively and qualitatively. The methodology of this study was divided into the following steps. The first stage consisted of the literature review, whose objective was to find documents and scientific productions relevant to the topic discussed in this article. Then, a Google Forms form was created, to be directed to the academic community (teachers and administrative technicians) of the Polytechnic School of Pernambuco - POLI/UPE. After completing the application of the form, the information collected was treated according to the Bardin Method. Among the employees of the analyzed EI, 88% reported complaining of pain in at least one part of the body while working in the home office model, even though 55% of them previously considered that the ergonomic conditions of their respective workstations were "good or excellent". Among the complaints, neck pain (64.4% of the cases), stand out.
Highlights
According to Donthu and Gustafsson (2020), Covid-19 is "a sharp reminder that pandemics, like other rarely occurring catastrophes, have happened in the past and will continue to happen in the future." According to IBGE PNADCOVID19, as of May 2020, there were 8.7 million Brazilian workers in remote activity
Home office emerged more than 50 years ago, with changes in the way work is performed, and in the way workers perform their activities in their own homes, while maintaining the employment relationship with the company
Other important problems are the virtual invasion of home space (Boncori, 2020) and inaccurate expectations of productivity held by co-workers and supervisors (Ryvasy & Michalak, 2020)
Summary
According to Donthu and Gustafsson (2020), Covid-19 is "a sharp reminder that pandemics, like other rarely occurring catastrophes, have happened in the past and will continue to happen in the future." According to IBGE PNADCOVID19, as of May 2020, there were 8.7 million Brazilian workers in remote activity. Millions of workers had their work activities impacted and needed to adjust to a new way of working, that of exercising their professional functions remotely, in home office (Bridi et al, 2020). According to the International Labor Organization (ILO, 2020), telework is defined as any activity performed in a place where, away from central offices or workshops, the worker does not maintain personal contact with his colleagues, but can communicate with them through information technology. Home office emerged more than 50 years ago, with changes in the way work is performed, and in the way workers perform their activities in their own homes, while maintaining the employment relationship with the company. Chart 1 - Changes in academic work as a result of COVID-19
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