Top Research Papers on Remote Working

Using in-depth, semi-structured interviews, study findings contribute to the literature on Virtual Human Resource Development with five aspects of working remotely in virtual teams: Telecommuters perceive time as an elastic, boundless aspect of how they work.

How does remote work affect productivity and how productive are workers who choose remote jobs? We decompose these effects in a Fortune 500 firm. Before COVID-19, remote workers answered 12 percent fewer calls per hour than on-site workers. After offices closed, the productivity gap narrowed by 4 percent, and formerly on-site workers' call quality and promotion rates declined. Even with everyone remote, an 8 percent productivity gap persisted, indicating negative selection into remote jobs. A cost-benefit analysis indicates savings in reduced turnover and office rents could outweigh remote wor...

Supervisors need to determine whether the work that is being done can be accomplished in just an as effective (or more effective) manner by utilization of a remote work arrangement.

Working from Home (WFH) has become a profound workplace culture in developed and developing countries with a concern whether it should be continued or discontinued. Therefore, the purpose of this paper was to examine the subject of telecommuting and remote work revolution against whether workers are more effective and productive working from home? To accomplish this, a descriptive research design that is multi-perspective in nature and utilizes the content analysis approach was adopted. The paper presented a brief history of teleworking, different remote working platforms, performance of telew...

We show that cities with higher population density specialize in high-skill service jobs that can be done remotely. The urban and industry bias of remote work potential shaped the recent pandemic’s economic impact. Many big-city high-skill service workers started to work remotely, withdrawing spending from local consumer service industries dependent on their demand. As a result, low-skill service workers in big cities bore most of the recent pandemic’s economic impact. Our findings have broader implications for the distributional consequences of the U.S. economy’s transition to more remote wor...

An automatic detection scheme of work distraction for remote management of telecommuting that hides all texts in the difference images to protect disclosure of privacy-related information and provides about 96% detection accuracy.

“Telework” and “remote work” have both increased sharply in recent years during and after the pandemic and it is expected that new hybrid modes of working will emerge enabled by digital technologies.

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to the rise of remote work with consequences for the global division of work. Remote work could connect labour markets, but it could also increase spatial polarisation. However, our understanding of the geographies of remote work is limited. Specifically, does remote work bring jobs to rural areas or is it concentrating in large cities, and how do skill requirements affect competition for jobs and wages? We use data from a fully remote labour market - an online labour platform - to show that remote work is polarised along three dimensions. First, countries are glo...

We provide the first evidence on the efficacy of long-distance working arrangements between CEOs and firms. Long-distance CEOs underperform according to operating performance, insider reviews, and announcement returns to CEO departures. These effects are stronger when the CEO’s commute is longer and crosses multiple time zones. Using the quality of schools available to the CEO’s children as an instrument for the decision to commute, we argue that these effects are causal. CEOs’ private costs of working remotely have long-run effects on their strategic decisions and on the future of their firms...

Remote work is typically characterized as work that is done at some physical distance from the office. Existing research has shown that the main elements of this characterization—physical distance and the office—are far more complex than most people realize. This review develops a framework that refracts the concept of remote work into four types of distance—psychological, temporal, technological, and structural—and three objects from which one can be distant—material resources, social resources, and symbolic resources. We then use this refraction framework to answer five questions about the w...

Currently, job duties are massively transferred from in-person to remote working. Existing knowledge on remote working is mainly based on employees’ assessment. However, the manager’s perspective is crucial in organizations that turned into remote work for the first time facing sudden circumstances, i.e., SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The main aim of our study was to analyze remote work effectiveness perceived by managers (N = 141) referring to three crucial aspects, i.e., manager, team, and external cooperation. We assumed the perceived benefits, limitations, and online working frequency as predictors...

Tracing temporary work modifications resulting in permanent organizational changes in the construction industry is a challenge because of the high level of uncertainty about when and how these modifications will occur.

OFF-HIGHWAY REMOTE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY AVAILABLE, HERE ARE A SELECTION OF THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

A pilot scheme was set up to test two electronic mail systems plus videotex, and future schemes include setting up a central database to access personnel details and project management files.

Study of work-from-home practices of neurodivergent professionals who have Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, learning disabilities, and psychosocial disabilities reveals that while working from home, neurod divergent professionals create accessible physical and digital workspaces, negotiate accessible communication practices, and reconcile tensions between productivity and wellbeing.

What explains record U.S. house price growth since late 2019? We show that the shift to remote work explains over one half of the 23.8 percent national house price increase over this period. Using variation in remote work exposure across U.S. metropolitan areas we estimate that an additional percentage point of remote work causes a 0.93 percent increase in house prices after controlling for negative spillovers from migration. This cross-sectional estimate combined with the aggregate shift to remote work implies that remote work raised aggregate U.S. house prices by 15.1 percent. Using a model ...

We study the adoption of remote work within cities and its effect on city structure and welfare. We develop a dynamic model of a city in which workers can decide to work in the central business district (CBD) or partly at home. Working in the CBD allows them to interact with other commuters, which enhances their productivity through a standard production externality, but entails commuting costs. Switching between modes of labor delivery is costly, and workers face idiosyncratic preference shocks for remote work. We characterize the parameter set in which the city exhibits multiple stationary e...

DiCoT can be seen as a promising lens for the analysis and design of remote working locations and about the framework itself, which is targeted in this paper.

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to the rise of digitally enabled remote work with consequences for the global division of labour. Remote work could connect labour markets, but it might also increase spatial polarisation. However, our understanding of the geographies of remote work is limited. Specifically, in how far could remote work connect employers and workers in different countries? Does it bring jobs to rural areas because of lower living costs, or does it concentrate in large cities? And how do skill requirements affect competition for employment and wages? We use data from a fully remote...

The impact of COVID-19 on the way that we work arguably represents the most drastic and rapid shift to the global workforce that we have seen since World War II. This paper investigates the long term impacts of this remote work experiment and what we can anticipate in the future, based on the direct impact that COVID has had on hiring, sentiments around remote work, and plans moving forward. The analysis uses two waves of survey data: one fielded prior to the pandemic in November 2019, and the other fielded during the pandemic in April 2020. The surveys polled a combined 1,500 hiring managers ...

Remote (or hybrid remote) work is currently becoming more and more trending. This happened in recent years, driven by technological advancements and the global COVID-19 pandemic. This model of work offers immense opportunities for employers and employees, such as increased flexibility, improved work-life balance, and reduced commute time. However, the shift to remote work also comes with its own set of challenges and complexities. The paper describes the results of the research, which specifies data for the approbation of the method for calibrating the efficiency of remotely working employees ...

Promoting remote work can reduce psychological and physical stress responses, however, full-remote work has the risk of worsening presenteeism.

Data analysis surfaced the two major themes of the social and the emotional experience of participants, as well as subthemes that identify contextual, structural, and personal factors that shaped their experiences.

Three important components that marked work during the COVID-19 period are described: remote work, health and safety during teleworking, and personal responsibility.

The need for cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment, emergency preparedness, lone worker programs, medical screening, and enhanced exposure control in the OGE industry is identified.

We use data from a large web-based job platform to study how the price of remote work is determined in a globalized labor market. In the platform, workers from around the world compete for jobs that can be done remotely. We document that, despite the global nature of the marketplace, the worker’s location accounts for almost a third of the variance in wages. The observed wage differences are strongly correlated to the GDP per-capita in the worker’s location. This correlation is not accounted for by differences in workers’ characteristics, occupations, nor for differences in the employers’ loca...

Working remotely at least some of the time has long been seen as promoting a better integration of work and care obligations, even though prepandemic research is mixed as to the extent to which parents benefit emotionally from remote work. We exploit dual social experiments in schooling and work spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic to understand any stress-reducing effects of working from home under different school-closing state policy contexts. The pandemic led to an unprecedented shift to (and subsequent away from) remote and hybrid work but also to the implementation of various containment pol...

The world has witnessed a historic shift in the labor market in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While some companies used to offer the possibility of working from home as an advantage, now it has become the norm for most companies. By 2025, it is estimated that 70% of the workforce will work remotely at least five days a month. Although 2020 can be considered the year of remote working, this is just the beginning because we see that the trend continues in 2022. Even in new circumstances such as Health Crisis, all variations of the distance jobs and hybrid working models were not ju...

Abstract The case for remote work goes well beyond its use during the covid-19 global pandemic. Over the last ten years, research from a variety of subdisciplines in economics and other social sciences collectively makes a strong case for the viability of remote work for the long-run. This paper brings this research together to argue remote work (also called telework) is likely to become far more common in the future for four reasons. First, the productivity of individual workers who switch to remote work is comparable or higher than their colocated peers, at least in some industries. Second, ...

This article was adapted and revised from the original “Mariotti I. (2021), Il lavoro a distanza svuota le città? Intervista a Philip McCann (Does remote working empty the city? An interview with Philip McCann), In Bellandi M., Nisticò R., Mariotti I. (eds.), Città e periferie alla prova del Covid-19: dinamiche territoriali, nuovi bisogni, politiche (Cities and peripheries to the test of Covid-19: territorial dynamics, new needs, policies), Donzelli Editore, Rome, pp. 25-35.

To promote well-being and successful remote work, isolation and loneliness should be reduced through greater contact with colleagues and managers.

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The proliferation of novel work arrangements, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has led to the emergence of remote work trip experiences in which work is conducted within the context of leisure travel. Remote work trips challenge the dichotomous view of traditional work and leisure domains. Grounded in positive psychology, this exploratory research investigates remote work travel experiences as a new phenomenon under the leisure travel umbrella. Using a data analytics approach based on a topological analysis of 32,881 Instagram posts, the findings revealed 23 distinct elements of remote wo...

Six organizational patterns of remote work environments are presented in this paper: Unofficial Meetings, Remote Mentor, Unified Communication Channels, Standard Operating Procedures, Information Hub, and Cut Meetings.

The study presented seeks to report ergonomics with remote work, highlighting some of the main characteristics related to the use of ergonomics with work routines. The same has the general objective to characterize and analyze the occupational activity from the ergonomic point of view of the worker. The specific objectives are: to identify and describe the importance and procedures that must be adopted in ergonomics; analyze and identify adverse conditions and good practices at work from the perspective of health and safety at work and describe how ergonomics can be inserted together with remo...

Research from the CIPD spanning five leading European countries corroborated anecdotal reports of improved productivity through flexible working and also indicated longer‐term health benefits through reduced stress.

Global pandemic COVID-19 has increased the level of digitalization which allows public and private sector organizations in the world to employ people remotely outside office premises and crossing borders of the world. Remote work is one of the new employment forms caused by the impact of digitalization, which keeps conquering and strengthening the positions on our daily professional lives. It means extended use of different new employment forms, including the digital transition of administration processes and business management, improvement of digital skills and competences, contributing to d...

In a dynamic crisis situation such as the current one, the forecasts for the impact of COVID-19 on the world economy and the development of individual countries and cities are constantly changing. The impact of COVID-19 has turned many industries upside down in unexpected ways. More organizations switch to remote working environments for their employees due to the current world health crisis. The purpose of this article is to outline the opportunities and challenges facing Bulgarian employees working from home during the MarchApril 2020 state of mergency and beyond. We discuss the many advanta...

The text is about remote work analyzed mainly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic that took over the world in 2020 and is still ongoing, baffling by new mutations of this virus, and research on remote work in this context is in statu nascendi.

Remote work is undoubtedly on the rise, especially as companies adapt to the changing times of COVID-19, but what impact will this have on the broader economy? In this analysis, we examine the potential for remote work to reshape the geography of opportunity in the U.S. Using a variety of data sources, we provide evidence that remote work is already helping to send economic activity from the top 15 most expensive parts of the country to less expensive parts. When this happens, we show that it can be mutually beneficial: higher earnings for independent professionals and lower cost for businesse...

The article highlights the process of developing a new form of employment — remote work in Russia, regarding a number of basic legal issues related to legal entities and the regulation of the work of remote employees. The topic of the article is currently important due to the situation in the world related to the rapid development of new technologies and the usage of the Internet in our daily life. Moreover, remote work becomes highly sought due to the pandemic of coronavirus. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the practice of remote work in Russia and abroad, to the problems of lega...

The image captured by the user terminal is processed by the remote operation instructing terminal by processing the image so ID or password can not be seen to display in, providing remote work support system comprising: an accepting means for accepting from the remote work instruction terminal.

Over the past 20 years, the internet and wireless communications have made it progressively easier for people to work outside the office, but does teleworking actually improve performance?

WORK FROM HOME IS A WAY BY WHICH EMPLOYEE WORKS FROM HIS HOME OR PLACE OF RESIDENCE INSTEAD OF DOING WORK IN A TRADITIONAL WAY. MANY ORGANIZATIONS HAVE ADOPTED WORK FROM HOME OR REMOTE WORK POLICY. THIS WILL FACILITATE THE EMPLOYEES TO WORK FROM HOME CONVENIENTLY FOR FULL TIME OR WHENEVER TIME SUITS FOR THEM. ACCORDING TO DAWN FAY WHO IS A SENIOR DISTRICT PRESIDENT OF RECRUITMENT AND STAFFING COMPANY, WORKING FROM HOME IS CONSIDERED TO BE VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE OF THE COMPACT MARKETPLACE. COMPANIES REQUIRE TOP TALENT EMPLOYEES AND IT CAN BE ACHIEVED BY ATTRACTING POTENTIAL EMPLOYEES AND TRY TO...

This paper analyzes the emerging trends and patterns that will most likely influence and shape the use of the human resource in companies, especially within the United States of America.

Remote work has been widely adopted by organizations. In this context, this study aimed to answer several questions regarding the adaptation of centennials (born after 1995) to this type of work. It is in this generation that companies seek talent to meet skill needs (creativity, innovation, leadership). This is an exploratory study that began with a literature review, followed by the application of a questionnaire created in the Google Forms© tool. The forms were sent to students in the Administration course at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP) via email and WhatsApp, r...

In this article, in a comparative aspect, some issues related to the peculiarities of the legal regulation of labor relations of remote workers in the Russian Federation and in the Republic of Belarus are considered. Using international documents, the concept of remote workers and their difference from homeworkers is analyzed. The historical aspect of the legal regulation of the work of such persons, referred to in the past as tenants, is pointed out. The modern legal status of remote workers in Russia and Belarus is revealed, changes in the legislation of both states aimed at improving the le...

The review presents court decisions on disputes about the workplace of a remote worker, transfer to remote labor, remuneration, and reimbursement of expenses when working remotely.

The main goal of the paper is to explore and expose the main changes in leadership behavior caused by digital technologies, as well as to analyze the advantages and challenges they present for organizations.

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