Employment status during the lockdown period and task crafting: Job insecurity, emotional exhaustion, and affective commitment as mediators

ABSTRACT

The focus of the present study was to better understand the psychological effects of the Covid-19 epidemic of employee furloughs. As one of the techniques for dealing with the relatively sudden and distressing effects of the pandemic, a relatively new employment status not commonly used before the crisis was implemented. Analysis of the data here showed that the decision to put employees on furlough has profound emotional effects associated with it including a negative impact on feelings of job security with withdrawal behavior as a potential outcome. Suggestions for reducing some of these negative consequences are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)