The widespread adoption of remote and hybrid work has profoundly reshaped organizational processes, offering greater flexibility and autonomy while simultaneously introducing new psychosocial challenges. Drawing on the Job Demands–Resources (JD...
18 November 2021
Although a large part of the world’s workforce engaged in mandatory Work from Home during the COVID-19 pandemic, the experience was not the same for everyone. This study explores whether different groups of employees, based on their work and organiza...
Building upon the job demands-resources model, this study examines how communication technology (CT) use in remote work relates to role clarity, coworker support, work overload, and, in turn, burnout to enhance sustainable worker and organizational w...
“Stay at home” orders during the COVID-19 pandemic radically changed the day-to-day operations of many organizations and moved employees from offices to homes. The sudden crisis forced companies to reformulate their operations. Enabling e...
12 November 2021
Employees’ work-related well-being has become one of the most significant interests of researchers and organizations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examines how job characteristics such as mental load and team support, and technology-relate...
During the first months of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has affected several countries all over the world, including Italy. To prevent the spread of the virus, governments instructed employers and self-employed workers to close their offices and work...
This paper investigates whether intelligent workplace technologies improve firm-level productivity and, if so, under what conditions, with particular attention to their implications for the economic and social sustainability of firms. This investigat...
This study aimed to analyze the challenges, learning experiences, and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in a social, healthcare, and special education development project financed by the European Social Fund. The theoretical framework of the project r...
This study examines experiential and financial factors associated with Metaverse readiness in Lebanon. Drawing on a socio-technical readiness perspective informed by selected concepts from technology adoption literature, the study explores how intere...
The objective of this research is to investigate the characteristics of remote work in Peru during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, the study will allow exploring the advantages, disadvantages, challenges and opportunities that Peruvian remote wor...
This research paper explores the intersection of the Metaverse and remote working, specifically concerning young entrepreneurs. Its primary objective is to examine the opportunities and challenges presented by the Metaverse for this demographic engag...
This study investigates the determinants of employees’ intention to stay in Thailand’s technology industry under remote work arrangements, using the technology–organisation–environment (TOE) framework as a contextual organisin...
This study explores the utilization of online meeting tools in remote or hybrid work environments. The main research question is: “How do Turkish employees’ expectations and concerns regarding the use of online meeting tools influence the...
The COVID-19 pandemic that happened in 2020 has forced people worldwide to practice remote work with little or no prior experience, working for companies and organizations that are most likely unprepared for this change. The quality of remote work th...
28 September 2022
Remote working refers to a working model in which employees can pursue work tasks outside the organization due to the use of technology. Several research papers showed that different assumptions are linked to remote work because of the flexibility an...
22 June 2023
Changes in work assets due to the COVID-19 pandemic posed several challenges to employees’ well-being, especially in the light of the changes in the work organization, such as remote working and the massive use of IT. According to the literatur...
For those who have access to them, technologies of various sorts play a key role in maintaining connections between small and geographically dispersed settlements and to the wider World. For technologies to work in remote areas, there must be a frame...
Background: The outbreak of COVID-19 pushed organizations towards the adoption of new ways of organizing the workplace, to contrast the diffusion of the virus as well as to ensure the production of goods and services. Many workers and employers were...
Remote work, as a technologically possible and widely applicable working mode, gained renewed attention during lockdowns amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. On one hand, remote work ensured that working remained sustainable; on the other hand, the unexpect...
This study investigates the psychological factors influencing remote work acceptance during the COVID-19 pandemic using a Bayesian network and probabilistic structural equation modeling (PSEM) approach. The research specifically explores the impact o...
Remote work has been of interest to managers since the implementation of new information and communication technologies (ICTs). During the initial period, it was treated as an employee’s privilege or even a luxury and as such it was not a popul...
At present, remote sensing serves as a key approach to track ecological recovery after fires. However, systematic and quantitative research on the research progress of post-fire remote sensing remains insufficient. This study presents the first globa...
Three decades ago, telepresence was presented as an idea in the context of remote work and manipulation. Since then, it has evolved into a field combining different technologies and allowing users to have more or less realistic perceptions of immersi...
Remote working is increasingly seen as an effective model in several countries in the last decade, mainly thanks to the development of information and communication technologies in support of common daily working tasks. The emergence of the COVID-19...
The operation of natural gas grids requires electric-powered devices as data acquisition and control systems, surveillance and communication appliances, etc., often located in remote, unpopulated off-the-grid areas, where there is no personnel for su...
Road construction, inspection and maintenance are activities that often require workers near heavy equipment, traffic, and dangerous materials. This proximity to potential hazards along with the characteristics of highway and street work zones—...
29 June 2021
The COVID-19 crisis has disrupted when, where, and how employees work. Drawing on a sample of 5452 Finnish employees, this study explores the factors associated with employees’ abrupt adjustment to remote work. Specifically, this study examines struc...
This study examines how Scrum teams within the Information Technology (IT) and software development sectors implement this methodology in a remote work environment and the challenges they encounter during its implementation. As a result of the widesp...
The construction industry is slow to adopt new technologies. The implementation of digital technologies and remote operations using robots were considered farfetched affairs and unbelievable approaches. However, the effect of COVID-19 on clients and...
Purpose: With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, employees suddenly had to work remotely and realize all work-related social interaction in virtual formats. The sudden shift to the virtual format came with new workplace stressors. To understand the...
Deep learning has emerged as a potential tool for crop yield prediction, allowing the model to automatically extract features and learn from the datasets. Meanwhile, smart farming technology enables the farmers to achieve maximum crop yield by extrac...
This work reviews the key challenges surrounding teaching Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics subjects known as STEM. The research has uncovered a significant gap between traditional teaching styles and the need to develop and adapt to...
We explored the impacts of the remote and return-to-in-person work periods on sleep and well-being as reported by faculty (n = 22) and non-teaching staff (n = 21) with and without disabilities. Participants were recruited through college platforms an...
10 November 2023
During the COVID-19 pandemic, remote working was pervasively implemented, causing an increase in technology-related job demands. Concurrently, there was an increase in psychological problems in the occupational population. This study on remote worker...
This study provides critical policy insights into the U.S. students’ academic achievement trends and the impacts of remote learning policies and practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. Linking cross-state education assessment and survey dataset...
This paper systematically reviews remote sensing technology and learning algorithms in exploring landslides. The work is categorized into four key components: (1) literature search characteristics, (2) geographical distribution and research publicati...
During the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools quickly transitioned their teaching and assessment strategies to online formats. In Spring 2020, a 3-station remote Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) was implemented for first-year...
In line with the recent industrial trends of hyperconnectivity, 5G technology deployment, the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0, the ultimate goal of corrosion prevention is the invention of smart coatings that are able to assess their own co...
At present, with the advance of satellite image processing technology, remote sensing images are becoming more widely used in real scenes. However, due to the limitations of current remote sensing imaging technology and the influence of the external...
The close-up visual inspection of bridges faces several problems, including a lack of financial resources and human personnel. Hence, there has been increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) and information and communications technology (ICT) to...
25 March 2021
Despite the huge number of studies on telework in 2020, the influence of socio-demographic characteristics of workers on their attitudes towards telework continues to raise questions. Researchers agree on some aspects, such as younger individuals bei...
Technological advances and the evolution of mobile technologies enable patients to meet their doctors through their smartphones. While offering the opportunity of digital visits to patients, there are also challenges for this development. The purpose...
3 January 2023
The ever-increasing world’s population, the consequent heavy demand for food supply, and the lack of rain-fed agriculture to meet such demands have increased the role of irrigation in agricultural production. Water management in the irrigation...
Soil and water pollution caused by excessive use of fertilizers and resource scarcity are critical issues in modern horticulture. Although laboratory tests are reliable, they take time and use chemical reagents that must be disposed of and complex pr...
Monitoring the work cycles of earthmoving excavators is an important aspect of construction productivity assessment. Currently, the most advanced method for the recognition of work cycles is the “Stretching-Bending” Sequential Pattern (SBSP), which i...
Digital Health is a new way for medicine to work together with computer engineering and ICT to carry out tests and obtain reliable information about the health status of citizens in the most remote places in Brazil in near-real time, applying new tec...
It is well known that power plants worldwide present access to difficult and hazardous environments, which may cause harm to on-site employees. The remote and autonomous operations in such places are currently increasing with the aid of technology im...
Remote support in general is a method that saves time and resources. A relatively new and promising technology for remote support that combines video conferencing and physical mobility is that of telepresence systems. The remote assistant, that is, t...
24 March 2022
Telework (also referred to as telecommuting or remote work), is defined as working outside of the conventional office setting, such as within one’s home or in a remote office location, often using a form of information communication technology...
Remote Sensing, an open access journal (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing) has grown at rapid pace since its first publication five years ago, and has acquired a strong reputation. It is a “pathfinder” being the first open access journal in r...
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