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Personality Traits, Remote Work and Productivity

Gavoille, Nicolas; Hazans, Mihails - 2022

The future of teleworking ultimately depends on its impact on workers' productivity and wellbeing, yet the effect of … productivity from home, especially for females. On the other hand, the link between Extraversion and preference for teleworking is …

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The New Hazardous Jobs and Worker Reallocation

Basso, Gaetano; Boeri, Tito; Caiumi, Alessandro; … - 2020

This paper analyses several dimensions of workers' safety that are relevant in the context of a pandemic. We provide a classification of occupations according to the risk of contagion: by considering a wider range of job characteristics and a more nuanced assessment of infection risk, we expand...

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Speeding Up on the Learning Curve: The Evaluation of Telework Following a Surge in Telework Experience

Moens, Eline; Lippens, Louis; D'hert, Liam; Baert, Stijn - 2024

This letter adds to the literature on the importance of telework experience in employee evaluation by leveraging the telework experience accumulated during the COVID-19 crisis. We conducted a follow-up survey on the evaluation of telework exactly three years after our initial data collection in...

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Loud or Quiet Quitting? The Influence of Work Orientations on Effort and Turnover

Nikolova, Milena - 2024

This study examines work orientations as a novel determinant influencing job search behaviors, quit intentions, and workplace effort, thereby integrating this concept into the field of labor economics. Work orientations, the intrinsic beliefs regarding the role of work in one's life, relate to...

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Improving Health and Safety in the Informal Sector: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Bangladesh

Islam, Asad; Lee, Wang-Sheng; Triyana, Margaret; Xia, Xing - 2023

Workers in small businesses in low- and middle-income countries are exposed to significant risks of occupational accidents and illnesses. A safe and healthy workplace could improve the productivity and sustainability of the business. In this paper, we conduct a randomized controlled trial in...

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Too Much of a Good Thing? Telework Intensity and Workplace Experiences

Moens, Eline; Lippens, Louis; Vangronsvelt, Kathleen; … - 2025

teleworking, it is crucial to ascertain the optimal level of telework intensity. In the present study, we determine this ideal …% teleworking. For task efficiency and work concentration, the association appears to be concave with a plateau, stabilising at … teleworking levels above 70%. Only between telework intensity and employer connectedness do we observe a slightly negative linear …

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Remote Working and Mental Health during the First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic

Bertoni, Marco; Cavapozzi, Danilo; Pasini, Giacomo; … - 2021

We use longitudinal data from the SHARE survey to estimate the causal effect of remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health of senior Europeans. We face endogeneity concerns both for the probability of being employed during the pandemic and for the choice of different work...

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Mutual Gains? Is There a Role for Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace?

Bryson, Alex - 2017

I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in employee engagement, there are alternative management strategies that may be profit-maximising. I...

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Managing Skills in Organizations - Evidence from a Field Experiment

Grabe, Leonhard; Sliwka, Dirk - 2025

We study the value of skill management in organizations. In a natural field experiment with 2,582 service technicians, we vary managers' ability to monitor and manage employee skills. We find that removing managers' access to hard information on employee skills reduced training intensity, work...

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The COVID-19 Crisis and Telework: A Research Survey on Experiences, Expectations and Hopes

Baert, Stijn; Lippens, Louis; Moens, Eline; Sterkens, … - 2020

teleworking, such as increased efficiency and a lower risk of burnout. The results also suggest that the overwhelming majority of … the surveyed employees believe that teleworking (85%) and digital conferencing (81%) are here to stay. In contrast, some …

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