Perception of home teleworking during COVID-19 crisis in Spain: significant factors and assymetrical influence on acceptance and resistance
Fecha
2023Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Tipo
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión
Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa
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10.1108/IJM-10-2022-0505 (Erróneo)
Resumen
Purpose.This paper aims to shed light on the perception of the consequences of implementing home
teleworking (TW) for employers and employees amid the pandemic. By doing so, the research analyzes the
factors that explain employers’ and employees’ perceptions of home TW and the symmetry of their impact on
its acceptance and rejection.
Design/methodology/approach. The analysis is done over the ...
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Purpose.This paper aims to shed light on the perception of the consequences of implementing home
teleworking (TW) for employers and employees amid the pandemic. By doing so, the research analyzes the
factors that explain employers’ and employees’ perceptions of home TW and the symmetry of their impact on
its acceptance and rejection.
Design/methodology/approach. The analysis is done over the survey “Trends in the digital society during
SARS-COV-2 crisis in Spain” by the Spanish “Centro de Investigaciones Sociol ogicas.” The explanatory
variables were selected and classified using the well-known taxonomy of Baruch and Nicholson (i.e. individual
factors, family/home, organizational and job-related).
Findings. The global judgment of HTW is positive, but factors such as gender, age, children in care or being
an employer nuance that perception. While some factors, such as the attitude of employees toward information
communication technologies (ICTs), perceived productivity or the distance from home to work, have a
significant link with both positive and negative perceptions of HTW, other factors can only explain either
positive or negative perceptions. Likewise, the authors observed that being female and having children on care
had a detrimental influence on opinions about HTW.
Practical implications – A clearer regulation of TW is needed to prevent imbalances in rights and
obligations between companies and employees. The authors also highlight the potentially favorable effects of
telecommuting on mitigating depopulation in rural areas.
Originality/value. The authors have also measured not only the significance of assessed factors on the
overall judgment of HTW for firms and workers but also whether these factors impact acceptance and
resistance attitudes toward TW symmetrically. [--]
Materias
Teleworking,
Home teleworking,
COVID-19 pandemic,
Asymmetrical influence,
Spanish labor market
Editor
Emerald
Publicado en
International Journal of Manpower, (2023), 1-21
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Gestión de Empresas /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Enpresen Kudeaketa Saila
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Entidades Financiadoras
This work was funded by “INAP, Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública”, which nowadays belongs to the Spanish “Ministerio de Hacienda y Función Pública”.Project: Teleworking in public administrations. Present and key issues for the future (T20165S).