Remote work mindsets predict emotions and productivity in home office: A longitudinal study of knowledge workers during the Covid-19 pandemic

ABSTRACT

Over the past decades, developments in information and communication technologies have enabled more and more employees to work from locations other than the office in what has come to be interchangeably called remote work, telecommuting, or distributed work. This trend has attracted much scholarly attention, in particular the question of how remote work can be implemented in optimal ways for employees and organizations. A new urgency was brought to the study of remote work when the COVID-19 pandemic prompted organizations across the world to shift their workforce unexpectedly and rapidly to home office. In light of the crisis, many organizations have planned to increase the amount of remote work available to employees, including "tech giants" such as Twitter that announced employees can work remotely forever if they desire. Accordingly, scholars and practitioners alike predict that in the aftermath of the global crisis, remote work will be part of the "new normal". (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)