Locked-down digital work
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Covid-19 and the related lockdown in many countries made digital work no longer just an option, but the new norm for many office workers who began to make sense of a new range of benefits of digital work tools. Based on my own observations and on observations shared by executives in New Zealand and Europe, I illustrate in this article how the lockdown acted as a facilitator for digital work. Further, I show how the lockdown gave many individuals a flawed impression of digital work, i.e. their experience occurred during exceptional circumstances and led them to draw false conclusions about digital work. I examine some misconceptions of locked-down digital work and discuss the implications of locked-down digital work for research and practice.
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The change toward a work from home culture has been facilitated using video conferencing and collaboration systems enabled through ICTs.
“This change toward a work from home culture has been facilitated using video conferencing and collaboration systems enabled through ICTs (Chakraborty & Kar, 2021;Galanti et al., 2021;Richter, 2020).”
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Working from home has significantly increased driven by the pandemic, which has drastically reduced travel to workplaces, thereby reducing the carbon footprint from travel and maintaining office infrastructure.
“Driven by the pandemic, working from home has significantly increased, which has drastically reduced travel to workplaces, thereby reducing the carbon footprint from travel and maintaining office infrastructure.”
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Collaboration ICTs and video conferencing systems reduce travel and indirectly save environmental pollution from vehicular emissions.
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- Authors
- Richter, A.
- Affiliations
- Victoria University of Wellington (NZ)
- Corresponding author
- Richter, Alexander
- ORCID
- Richter, Alexander
- Venue
- International Journal of Information Management
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-12
- Volume
- 55
- Pages
- 102157
- ISSN
- 0268-4012 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7263207
- OpenAlex
- W3032057860
- Cited by
- 225
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 58 · 2022: 48 · 2021: 47 · 2020: 19
- FWCI
- 57.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- International Journal of Information Management (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Corporate Management and Leadership
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Technostress in Professional Settings
- Keywords
- digital work, COVID-19 lockdown, remote work, office workers, digital work tools, executive perspectives, working from home
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