Working from Home—Who Is Happy? A Survey of Lithuania’s Employees during the COVID-19 Quarantine Period
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Institute of Leadership and Strategic Management, Faculty of Public Governance, Mykolas Romeris University, LT-08303 Vilnius, Lithuania
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Institute of Management, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, 917 01 Trnava, Slovakia
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Sustainability 2020, 12(13), 5332; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12135332
Received: 10 June 2020 / Revised: 24 June 2020 / Accepted: 29 June 2020 / Published: 1 July 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Strategic Challenges in Sustainable Human Resources Management)
The virtual way of working is becoming increasingly popular due to its potential for cost savings; it is also a way for an organization to be more agile and adapt to crises such as global pandemics. This innovative way of working brings new challenges to organizations that suddenly have to switch to telework. In fact, telework raises quite a few issues for employees, related to communication, collaboration, and the application of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies). This study examined the evaluation of telework through a questionnaire by different conditional groups of 436 teleworkers in Lithuania. Through a correlation analysis between the study variables, the findings suggest that there are differences in the evaluation of factors affecting telework efficiency and qualities required from a remote worker, depending on gender, age, education, work experience, and experience of telework. The results are discussed in terms of the characteristics of the most satisfied and the most dissatisfied teleworkers.
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Keywords:
teleworking; telecommuting; application of ICT; human resources; COVID-19 quarantine period
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Raišienė, A.G.; Rapuano, V.; Varkulevičiūtė, K.; Stachová, K. Working from Home—Who Is Happy? A Survey of Lithuania’s Employees during the COVID-19 Quarantine Period. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5332. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12135332
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Raišienė AG, Rapuano V, Varkulevičiūtė K, Stachová K. Working from Home—Who Is Happy? A Survey of Lithuania’s Employees during the COVID-19 Quarantine Period. Sustainability. 2020; 12(13):5332. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12135332
Chicago/Turabian StyleRaišienė, Agota G., Violeta Rapuano, Kristina Varkulevičiūtė, and Katarína Stachová. 2020. "Working from Home—Who Is Happy? A Survey of Lithuania’s Employees during the COVID-19 Quarantine Period" Sustainability 12, no. 13: 5332. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12135332
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