Research on Telework Changes Employees’ Stress Levels during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Specific Potential Stressors are Influencing the General Well-being of Employees

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10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_346How to use a DOI?

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Telework; Stress; COVID-19; Work-from-home; Employees’ well-being

Abstract

Due to the expansion of COVID-19, a growing number of employees are forced to use telework as a new strategy to cope with the problem of continuing work during this sudden and serious pandemic. Though the research was to investigate the influences of telework on people’s well-being in general, the question is under this special pandemic situation, how this sudden transition in the working environment will lead to changes in employees’ stress levels specifically. Therefore, this article concentrated on the stress levels and aims to figure out how exactly telework influences employees’ stress levels during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, this article also tries to shed light on whether corporations could consider telework as a work-mode choice for employees to better improve their working efficiency. To a global extent, meta-analysis is used in this article to assess the detailed evidence of the ways that the stress level of emplyees were influenced by telework during this pandemic. Three main factors were summarized that largely affect stress levels by combing 6171 participants. Results showed a positive correlation between telework and the stress level of employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, stress levels of employees during forced telework were mainly determined by work-life balance, work-home conflicts, and social interactions, which were significantly correlated with their working efficiency.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yicheng Jiang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/30
TI  - Research on Telework Changes Employees’ Stress Levels during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Specific Potential Stressors are Influencing the General Well-being of Employees
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 3009
EP  - 3016
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_346
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_346
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