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Remote working and digital transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Economic–financial impacts and psychological drivers for employees
Digital and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and, consequently, remote working have increased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, workers’ economic–financial perception of remote working conditions, such as digital technology and its implementation, has scarcely been...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9186428/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35706830 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.06.010 |
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author | Battisti, Enrico Alfiero, Simona Leonidou, Erasmia |
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description | Digital and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and, consequently, remote working have increased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, workers’ economic–financial perception of remote working conditions, such as digital technology and its implementation, has scarcely been researched. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the economic–financial impacts of remote working on labourers. Using a mixed-methods sequential exploratory design, a sample of 976 workers is investigated. This study highlights that the majority of workers experience a negative economic–financial impact due to the additional costs incurred for digital technology and platforms and for utilities as well as the non-payment of overtime and meal vouchers, which are higher than the savings in commuting costs and out-of-pocket expenses. Furthermore, this research emphasizes that psychological–behavioural variables, specifically job satisfaction and technostress, are essential in the choice to continue working remotely after the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, our results have important theoretical implications related to the existing literature both on the managerial issues connected to digital transformation, with interdisciplinary elements linked to psychological aspects, and on corporate finance topics associated to the economic–financial impacts of remote working. |
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spelling | pubmed-91864282022-06-10 Remote working and digital transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Economic–financial impacts and psychological drivers for employees Battisti, Enrico Alfiero, Simona Leonidou, Erasmia J Bus Res Article Digital and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and, consequently, remote working have increased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, workers’ economic–financial perception of remote working conditions, such as digital technology and its implementation, has scarcely been researched. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the economic–financial impacts of remote working on labourers. Using a mixed-methods sequential exploratory design, a sample of 976 workers is investigated. This study highlights that the majority of workers experience a negative economic–financial impact due to the additional costs incurred for digital technology and platforms and for utilities as well as the non-payment of overtime and meal vouchers, which are higher than the savings in commuting costs and out-of-pocket expenses. Furthermore, this research emphasizes that psychological–behavioural variables, specifically job satisfaction and technostress, are essential in the choice to continue working remotely after the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, our results have important theoretical implications related to the existing literature both on the managerial issues connected to digital transformation, with interdisciplinary elements linked to psychological aspects, and on corporate finance topics associated to the economic–financial impacts of remote working. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022-11 2022-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9186428/ /pubmed/35706830 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.06.010 Text en © 2022 Published by Elsevier Inc. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Battisti, Enrico Alfiero, Simona Leonidou, Erasmia Remote working and digital transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Economic–financial impacts and psychological drivers for employees |
title | Remote working and digital transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Economic–financial impacts and psychological drivers for employees |
title_full | Remote working and digital transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Economic–financial impacts and psychological drivers for employees |
title_fullStr | Remote working and digital transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Economic–financial impacts and psychological drivers for employees |
title_full_unstemmed | Remote working and digital transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Economic–financial impacts and psychological drivers for employees |
title_short | Remote working and digital transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Economic–financial impacts and psychological drivers for employees |
title_sort | remote working and digital transformation during the covid-19 pandemic: economic–financial impacts and psychological drivers for employees |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9186428/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35706830 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.06.010 |
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