Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2020.1862689
Workplace change within the COVID-19 context: a grounded theory approach
Antonio de Lucas Ancillo
María Teresa del Val Núñez
Sorin Gavrila Gavrila
Abstract
The purpose is to investigate the current status and future evolution of the workplace within the COVID-19 pandemic context.
Documents, publications and surveys from numerous sources
have been analyzed to find out more about the employees’ and
organizations’ experience with remote working and the advantages and disadvantages of accessing the workplace during the
pandemic. The analysis of the data made possible the identification of patterns within the available literature regarding what has
happened and, especially, its influence on the workplace. The
revolution initiated by COVID-19 has changed the way companies
and employees work and will continue doing so, requiring a constant reinvention of how they operate and causing actions never
seen before, generating deep changes in the workplace.
Therefore, the idea of the workplace will never be what was
expected before COVID-19, where reinvention of work, technology
and safety are key points in its transformation process.
Keywords
Pandemics; COVID-19; workplace strategy; home office; post-COVID-19 real estate; post-COVID-19 workplace redesign; grounded theory
Hrčak ID:
301358
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2021.
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