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More Than A Feeling - Work from home experiences of employees during the pandemic: A long-term perspective

Gupta, Ananya LU and Engström, Max LU (2022) BUSN49 20221
Department of Business Administration
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic has had an abysmal impact on professional lives. The relentless strains of Covid have kept the world at large on tenterhooks. This has led to a new way of life and remote work environment. Work from home culture, while has seeped into the DNA of employees and organizations, has also brought about abundant experiences, expectations and criticisms. This thesis aims to delve into the work from home experiences of employees during the pandemic. Comparative studies have been conducted on the pre and post pandemic experiences of employees in multiple domains, but there is a gap in how that relates to a long-term perspective and whether the work from home experiences have been consistent the entire time or changed and if so,... (More)
The Covid-19 pandemic has had an abysmal impact on professional lives. The relentless strains of Covid have kept the world at large on tenterhooks. This has led to a new way of life and remote work environment. Work from home culture, while has seeped into the DNA of employees and organizations, has also brought about abundant experiences, expectations and criticisms. This thesis aims to delve into the work from home experiences of employees during the pandemic. Comparative studies have been conducted on the pre and post pandemic experiences of employees in multiple domains, but there is a gap in how that relates to a long-term perspective and whether the work from home experiences have been consistent the entire time or changed and if so, in what manner. This qualitative study builds on a sample of 10 one-on-one interviews from a real-setting technology-intensive firm in Sweden. It aims to fulfill researchers’ duty to investigate, discover and disclose various perspectives and identify various drivers of the phenomenon of work from home from the employees' experiences. The findings of this research indeed reveal that employee experiences of working from home during the pandemic have changed over time and there is a temporal evolution to it worth considering. (Less)
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author
Gupta, Ananya LU and Engström, Max LU
supervisor
organization
course
BUSN49 20221
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
Covid-19, remote work, experiences, work from home, productivity, well-being, evolution
language
English
id
9086565
date added to LUP
2022-06-21 09:20:03
date last changed
2022-06-21 09:20:03
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  abstract     = {{The Covid-19 pandemic has had an abysmal impact on professional lives. The relentless strains of Covid have kept the world at large on tenterhooks. This has led to a new way of life and remote work environment. Work from home culture, while has seeped into the DNA of employees and organizations, has also brought about abundant experiences, expectations and criticisms. This thesis aims to delve into the work from home experiences of employees during the pandemic. Comparative studies have been conducted on the pre and post pandemic experiences of employees in multiple domains, but there is a gap in how that relates to a long-term perspective and whether the work from home experiences have been consistent the entire time or changed and if so, in what manner. This qualitative study builds on a sample of 10 one-on-one interviews from a real-setting technology-intensive firm in Sweden. It aims to fulfill researchers’ duty to investigate, discover and disclose various perspectives and identify various drivers of the phenomenon of work from home from the employees' experiences. The findings of this research indeed reveal that employee experiences of working from home during the pandemic have changed over time and there is a temporal evolution to it worth considering.}},
  author       = {{Gupta, Ananya and Engström, Max}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{More Than A Feeling - Work from home experiences of employees during the pandemic: A long-term perspective}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}