Smart Work Research Articles

Optimizing radiologist productivity and efficiency: Work smarter, not harder

Radiologists’ personal productivity and efficiency are critically important for both improving patient outcomes and protecting clinician well-being. There are several solutions that individuals can implement to improve personal productivity and efficiency in the radiology workroom. Strategies include understanding the psychology behind productivity, using personal productivity methodologies to accomplish daily tasks, and learning to modulate stress to optimize performance. Institutional infrastructure requirements include a robust departmental commitment to information technology and informatics, including universal log-in systems, internal websites, and dashboards. The workstation itself can be optimized by utilizing hanging protocols, customized keyboard shortcuts, hotkeys, advanced scripts, gaming mice, and other input devices. Personal devices like smartphones can be harnessed to maximize productivity by using online storage applications and radiology-specific applications to augment knowledge. Reading room layouts must be designed to minimize interruptions and workstations must consider ergonomics to prevent fatigue and strain. High-efficiency teams also need to be created to allow radiologists to delegate non-clinical tasks to reduce administrative burdens. Lastly, continued advances in artificial intelligence including the use of smart report templates will lead to substantial gains in radiologists’ productivity and efficiency.

The Effect of Convention Employees’ Work-Life Balance on Family Relations and Psychological Well-being: Moderating Effect of Smart-Work Environment

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine WLB related to family and psychological well-being, and how the smart-work environment perceived by convention employees moderates this relationship. Design/Methodology/Approach The online questionnaire surveys were conducted with employees working at convention centers, convention bureaus, and PCO using e-mail and electronic surveys, and a total of 220 valid samples were used for empirical analysis. Findings Work-family balance clearly showed a positive effect on family relationships and ‘family cohesion’ out of the factors shown to positively affect psychological well-being. It was found that the smart work environments influenced WLB and family relationships. Research Implications This research empirically presents that among the factors of convention employee work-life balance, ‘work-family balance’ is the most important factor, and this study suggests that the introduction of strategies and appropriate smart work environments is necessary for convention employee work-family balance through the verification that the smart work environments introduced for work-life balance had negative effects to the contrary

An investigation into the smart working in the COVID-19 era: proposal of an electronic survey to examine the critical issues

An investigation into the smart working in the COVID-19 era: proposal of an electronic survey to examine the critical issues

Working conditions in ICT companies and smart working. Evidence from a field study

Working conditions in ICT companies and smart working. Evidence from a field study

Smart working: a research in the ICT sector. Introduction

Smart working: a research in the ICT sector. Introduction

Standing on the shoulders of programmers

Free and open-source software is growing to be a powerful tool in academic research, helping scientists to collaborate better and work smarter. Achintya Rao investigates how such software is being used in physics research, and its role in the wider open-science movement.

The Effect of Smart Work in the COVID-19 Environment on Work Productivity through Technostress

급변하는 환경에 ICT 기술의 발전은 스마트워크(Smart Work)라는 새로운 근무형태를 도입할 수 있게 하였다. 기업이 스마트워크에 관심을 두는 이유는 여러 긍정적인 효과를 동반하고 있기 때문이다. 그러나 2019년 발생한 COVID-19의 확산은 코로나 팬데믹 사태로 번지게 되었고, 스마트워크 도입의 목적을 변화시켰다. 스마트워크 중 재택근무가 질병관리청의 COVID-19 방역 조치사항 중 하나로 제시됐기 때문이다. 테크노스트레스는 스마트워크를 비롯한 ICT 기술을 사용하면서 나타나는 스트레스로 낮은 성과, 목표 저해 등 부정적인 결과로 나타난다. 성과 향상을 위한 스마트워크가 COVID-19환경에 도입됨으로 발생하는 테크노스트레스를 살펴보고, 테크노스트레스를 통해 성과에 미치는 영향을 보고자 본 연구가 시작되었다. 본 연구는 COVID-19 환경에서 스마트워크의 근무형태인 재택근무를 도입한 사무직을 대상으로 하였다. 구조방정식으로 각 스마트워크의 장소, 기술, 시간, 사람, 프로세스가 미치는 영향을 분석하였으며, 부트스트랩 분석과 Sobel test를 통하여 테크노스트레스의 간접효과도 살펴보았다. 본 연구를 통해 성과 향상을 위해 도입되었던 스마트워크가 테크노스트레스를 통해 업무 생산성에 부정적 영향을 미치고 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 특히, 장소는 테크노스트레스를 낮추고 총 효과도 더 높게 나타났으나, 기술은 테크노스트레스를 통해 부정적인 영향을 받아 총 효과를 낮추는 결과를 나타냈다. 본 연구가 앞으로 COVID-19가 가져온 업무환경의 변화를 연구하는 데 기여될 수 있길 바라는 바이다.

Smart Working and Well-Being before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review.

The purpose of this scoping review focused on the relationship between smart working, a conception of job centered on the flexibility and autonomy of the worker, and well-being/illness in an organizational context before and during COVID-19. The literature review, conducted using the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis for qualitative synthesis) method for qualitative synthesis, considered studies published from 2014 to 2020. From the analyses conducted by three independent coders, three main areas of interest in the literature emerged: (1) smart working and work engagement, (2) smart working and technostress, and (3) mediators of the relationship between smart working and well-being. The review highlights the need for an organizational culture increasingly oriented towards agile working practices in conjunction with organizational support and training.

Smart Working in Industry 4.0: How digital technologies enhance manufacturing workers' activities

Prior studies have investigated the relationship between Industry 4.0 technologies and work. This paper acknowledges the contributions of such studies and builds on their perspective to broaden the understanding of the contribution of Industry 4.0 technologies to specific worker capabilities and manufacturing activities. The aim is to build a conceptual framework to consolidate a common view on this growing yet fragmented issue by integrating a wide range of findings from the literature. The study adopts a systematic literature review approach to systematize such knowledge in a singular and consolidated perspective on Industry 4.0 technologies and work. The study analyzes 80 papers in this field and investigates how different Industry 4.0 technologies are related to workers’ manufacturing activities. Eight main manufacturing activities were considered to frame the analysis: assembly, maintenance, training, quality control, movement, machine operation, product and process design, and production planning and control. Eight worker capabilities that Industry 4.0 technologies can enhance were also considered: super-strength capability, augmented capability, virtual capability, healthy capability, smart capability, collaborative, social capability, analytical capability. Based on these 80 papers, this paper conceptualizes Smart Working-related technologies for Operators 4.0 and shows their benefits and limitations as described in the literature. The study shows how these manufacturing activities and worker capabilities can be supported by Industry 4.0 technologies, which is useful for future research and the design of operational processes in the Industry 4.0 context.

A survey-based approach used to analyse the indoor satisfaction and productivity level of user in smart working during lock-down due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Italy was the first country in Europe to enter lock-down due to COVID-19 pandemic. Most employees have been forced to adopt a work at home solution to avoid any possibility of spreading the virus. The article presents the results of a survey carried out in March-June 2020, during the first lockdown in Italy, aimed at investigating how people perceive the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) of their households during working from home. The questionnaire consists in a general section reporting information about participant, households and rooms where they perform the working activities; a specific section reporting feedbacks on each IEQ aspects (thermal, visual comfort, air and acoustic quality), overall comfort, productivity and other external variables that can affect users’ well-being during working hours. A total of 330 participants from all over the Italian territory signed the consent to participate in the survey over a period of about 3 months. The dataset was used to define the global level of satisfaction, perception, preference and interference with work at home, considering the main indoor environmental factors. The Machine Learning (ML) approach was applied to identify the most useful model to predict the overall comfort satisfaction.

‘Exertion is not connected to success’: everyday Yoruba discourse of work and success

AbstractWork hard, work smart, make the right connections, get the right education, invest wisely – yet after doing all the supposedly right things, success remains elusive to many. For a few, however, who may or may not have done exactly these things, success seems to come effortlessly. Some are very fortunate and others not so much. The lack of correspondence between exertion and success or work and good fortune is an issue that confronts lay persons and professionals alike. Focusing on Yoruba people, I discursively present lay Yoruba persons’ apprehension and common-sense view of this conundrum as reflected in their contextualized language use and supported by other ‘mundane’ information from day-to-day life. By looking at their everyday language, it is possible to deduce their reality as socially constructed in their discourses and gain insight into how they reconcile individual exertions with a view that asserts determinism. Further, I will suggest that the basis of the Yoruba conventional knowledge system informing their utterances and actions pertaining specifically to people's earthly fortunes lies in their origination narrative and original life quest, the essence of which remains inarguable even if temporarily pliable. The popular saying ‘iṣẹ́ o kan oríire’, exertion does not relate to success, is used as a point of departure and sense contained in their orature – situational utterances, pithy proverbs, aphorism and anecdotes – to tease out the Yoruba ordinary meaning of success/fortune and how it is acquired, relative to individuals’ earthly journey and preoccupation. Based on the sampled day-to-day utterances, individual life, it seems, unfolds as presumably scripted, despite apparent avowal and disavowal of ordination in people's pronouncements. Orí (head) retains its position at the summit, assenting – or not – to earthly endeavours.

The Future Of Cloud Computing Amidst A Desperate Security Maze: The Impact Of COVID And The Future Challenges

How far did the covid-19 go in terms of affecting the lives and way of living of people? The outbreak of this deadly virus not only made the people leave their way and stay in isolation but also served a major role in vanishing businesses, making people jobless, causing deaths, and much more. Apart from people losing their lives, there was a massive risk of employees losing jobs, or earning half of what they used to earn. The Covid is influencing the day-to-day routines and methods of experienced individuals. The flare-up of this dangerous virus served a significant job in loss of lives, disappearing organizations, making individuals jobless, isolated, and substantially more. Humans besides losing lives have faced a monstrous situation of losing jobs. With all this when the employees were in a state of work from home, there was an important role played by cloud computing. Its applications played their part in making people achieve their tasks. In this situation, cloud computing has held one side of the rope when employees were in the condition to work remotely. The smart working apps have proved their amazing performances. Its applications had their influence in causing individuals to accomplish their assignments. The truly great individual in the COVID-19 pandemic emergency is the cloud computing environment (CCE). It comprises the high-speed rehearses for administrations that mirror the pattern of quickly deployable applications for keeping up with information. In any case, there is an increment in its utilization, and the exploration shows there is a test to see the performance of CC applications accessibility in regards to the security, data, and everything worried about it. The focal point of this paper is to talk about the difficulties that the Coronavirus has welcomed on cloud computing and what will be the future and further difficulties it.

Energy use of buildings in relation to occupancy rates

This paper presents basic data of the energy demand for district heating and plug loads logged by a building management system of an energy-efficient academic building located in Lund, Sweden. The data refers to the years 2019 and 2020 when occupancy varied significantly due to the Corona pandemic. The data shows that the building energy demand adapts poorly to fluctuating occupancy rates. With a possible increase of smart working in the future, building codes should account for more fluctuating occupancy rates in the modelling of the energy demand of buildings.

ARIMA Model-Based Fire Rescue Prediction

In recent years, urban buildings have become taller, occupying more and more areas, frequent fires, and increasingly difficult fire rescue tasks. Predicting fire risks in advance will help fire rescue work. Therefore, this paper proposes a fire risk prediction based on the ARIMA model. By analyzing the fire rescue data of a certain place from 2016 to 2020 and based on the data from January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2019, an ARIMA model for predicting the number of fire rescue polices was established. The data from January 1, 2020, to December 31, 2020, are used as the validation data set of the model to evaluate the accuracy and stability of the model. The results show that the ARIMA model can be better applied to fire rescue prediction and provides a scientific prediction method for the research of smart fire rescue work.

Data collection during time of crisis – experiences from the COPERS study

BackgroundThe pandemic situation has been present for more than a year all over the world. In almost all countries actions were taken following WHO recommendations of social distance, smart work, online lectures, using of masks, etc. These procedures reduced physical distance but increased social isolation, encouraging virtual connection among people and eventually, increasing psychological repercussions. In many countries, equivalent measures were taken, but the cultural vulnerability to the virus could be dissimilar, influencing on social disruption and economic inequalities among countries. COPERS study aims to examine the association between the exposure and depression, perceived stress, anxiety, suicidal ideation, social capital in different cultural contexts.MethodsWe carefully focused on measuring exposure. Exposure can be described and assessed by intensity and by duration. We assessed both intensity and duration of exposure to the pandemic itself and to the containment measures. IES-R was used to assess the impact of the pandemic Covid-19 among people, assessing among others, feelings, sleeping troubles, stressful life events and emotional reactions.ResultsThe assessments included specific issues on exposure range to Covid-19 in different countries. Specifically, could be mentioned the mandatory isolation policy in specific hours, freely vaccination willingness and high suicidal occurrences as the Albanian case. Despite the high mortality and suicidal cases in Albania, many people acted as if virus was not around. However, it was possible to obtain data in a cultural environment which was reluctant to participate.ConclusionsThe measure to overcome skepticism to participate was mainly possible due to building trust to key persons. More measure how to conduct studies in populations which are reluctant to participate in research will be discussed. To obtain results in times of crises it is necessary to get data as well in difficult to reach populations.

Effective framework to tackle urban unemployment by e-government: an IoT solution for smart/metro cities in developing nation

PurposeWith the advancement in technology, the day-to-day life of people has gone through an immense transformation. The use of smart devices for day-to-day life is greater than before, and people are moving towards smart work rather than doing hard work. In this paper, a novel framework is proposed named Online Service Provider in Metro City (OSPMC) for IoT. The purpose of this study is to provide a theoretical framework for the E-Government in order to sustain or minimize the unemployment rate.Design/methodology/approachThe utilization of the Web in the upcoming years would create further opportunities for smart work. Internet of Things (IoT) plays an essential part in a system of multiple networks that aims to connect all things in the world that are capable of being connected through the internet. OSPMC framework can be developed on ASP.NET through (visual C#) 3.0 and Microsoft SQL Server with frontend and backend languages, respectively, under a web-based environment built on .Net platform. This lucrative facility is available mainly for the people living in the smart city.FindingsRural people are coming to smart cities in search of jobs, better education and a healthy lifestyle. India is also coping up with the modern world. The Government of India has taken an initiative for the making of 100 smart cities where the residents are relied upon to use Information and Communication Technology with the assistance of web.Social implicationsOSPMC promises to eliminate multiple evils like social injustice, crime, unemployment, tax fraud and would promote women empowerment. Also, provide opportunities to start-ups in order to grow and enhance their skill work.Originality/valueThe objective of OSPMC can be found useful for opening new job opportunities for urban/rural people while also encouraging people to learn skill work. For smart cities’ success in developing nations, it is important to recognize the elements influencing it. The motivation behind OSPMC is to identify those variables influencing the successful usage of allowing IoT in the smart cities by E-Government of India and to use IoT to help urban smart cities.

Emergency Remote Education and Smart Working at Three European Higher Education Institutions

Due to the threat posed by COVID-19, many colleges and universities around the world opted to switch to online courses and smart working to keep their students, professors, and staff safe during the pandemic emergency. Face-to-face classes, including labs and workshops, have been canceled and substituted with online activities. New administrative procedures have also been established to support the emergency remote education. This article analyzes these changes in light of the experiences of three higher education institutions in different countries, namely Latvia, Poland, and Italy. From this analysis, some aspects have emerged that have stimulated a deeper reflection on the use of digital technology in higher education. .

Rethinking researcher bias in health research

Bias is an ambiguous term, defined in different ways. In conventional usage, it indicates unwarranted prejudice. However, in health research, the notion that bias is invariably bad is biased. Although research bias is an error that is always harmful, researcher bias is a tendency to think in a particular way that may obscure or illuminate attempts to address research questions. Researcher bias begins with pre-judgements whose continuing evaluation infuses the subjectivity of researchers as persons who are socially situated in health sciences focusing on human subjects. Two sets of conditions can make this bias in health researchers useful. The first is volume control. Researchers can vary the loudness of their own and other voices in different research environments. The second condition is smart working. It balances researcher bias against analytic thinking to work creatively with irregularity and uncertainty. Thus, health researchers need to bring their biases to consciousness. A dialectical approach can then engage the biases as conversational partners to innovate health policy that is informed by principles including transparency, good faith and tolerance. Less critical than whether researchers are biased is whose interests their bias serves given their positionality and role.

The Internet of Things in Agriculture - the advantages and opportunities

The Internet of Things (IoT) has become increasingly popular in the recent decade. The Internet of Things helps people live and work smarter, as well as gain complete control over their lives. The concept of the IoT went widely into practice in different fields – Infrastructure, Production, Healthcare, Banks, Smart cities, Insurance, Media, Retail, Connected homes / Smart buildings, Agriculture, and many more. Modern agriculture can show its potential and importance by using these innovative technologies. The measuring devices, ensuring the transformation of data for the external environment into machine-readable data, at the same time filling the computing environment with significant information are very important. A wide range of measuring devices is used, from elementary sensors (e.g. temperature, pressure, illumination), consumption meters (e.g. smart meters) to complex integrated measuring systems. Satellites, drones, wireless sensor networks, analytical farming devices systems, farm management systems, big data applied to the farm are very useful and applicable in smart farming. The Internet of Things is a huge opportunity for farmers to monitor their crops and increase productivity, to monitor their livestock, to manage all the processes in their work and to take decisions at the right time. The article analyzes issues related to the modern IoT methods and their usage in general and in the area of agriculture. The main goal is to analyze the current state of IoT and its potential in areas of rural development and agriculture in the Republic of Bulgaria.

«Умный в гору не пойдет пойдет…» : использование электронных корпусов для диахронных исследований

“Work smart, not hard”: the use of electronic corpora for diachronic research. The present article is meant to be an experiment. Through the study of a specific linguistic problem – the use of discourse enclitics in two registersof the Old Russian langu age – the advantages and disadvantages of the use ofelectronic corpora in similar investigations is demonstrated in the research research.