Adaptability to Teleworking in European Countries

Bălăcescu, Aniela; Aurelia, Patrascu; Păunescu, Loredana Maria

doi:10.24818/ea/2021/58/683

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“…The datasets employed by the present research and its outcomes are consistent with other recent empirical studies from the literature that indicate that the COVID-19 health crisis turned out to be an exceptional force in the speeding up the trend of telework adoption across EU countries [3,4,[51][52][53][54]. Although emergency actions, which were put into operation in order to avoid SARS-CoV-2 proliferation among employees, were able to bring about a long-expected shift in terms of the settling down of "working-from-home practices", a set of drivers responsible for the degree of telework adoption were mentioned both by the pre-and post-pandemic literature [3,4,8,16,20,30,54].…”

Section: General Overview On the Degree Of Telework Embracement By Groups Of Eu Countriessupporting

confidence: 86%

“…This was due to the fact that Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands are considered to be trendsetters at the EU level in terms of digital performance [57]. Hence, on the 1st October 2020, the governing bodies from the Nordic and Baltic European countries consented to a joint Ministerial Declaration-Digital North 2.0-with ambitious plans in terms of becoming the preeminent sustainable and integrated region globally by 2030 through the development and employment of innovative technologies in order to face staggering societal transformations, such as pandemics, green revolution, or teleworking [52]. Under the circumstances, employees from the countries included in Class1 (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, Belgium, Austria) have used, to a great extent, the equipment they possessed at their residence; therefore, no additional time was needed for them to take part in training programs or to get used to new technologies.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Using Neural Networks in Order to Analyze Telework Adaptability across the European Union Countries: A Case Study of the Most Relevant Scenarios to Occur in Romania

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Coculescu

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Our study addresses the issue of telework adoption by countries in the European Union and draws up a few feasible scenarios aimed at improving telework’s degree of adaptability in Romania. We employed the dataset from the 2020 Eurofound survey on Living, Working and COVID-19 (Round 2) in order to extract ten relevant determinants of teleworking on the basis of 24,123 valid answers provided by respondents aged 18 and over: the availability of work equipment; the degree of satisfaction with the experience of working from home; the risks related to potential contamination with SARS-CoV-2 virus; the employees’ openness to adhering to working-from-home patterns; the possibility of maintaining work–life balance objectives while teleworking; the level of satisfaction on the amount and the quality of work submitted, etc. Our methodology entailed the employment of SAS Enterprise Guide software to perform a cluster analysis resulting in a preliminary classification of the EU countries with respect to the degree that they have been able to adapt to telework. Further on, in order to refine this taxonomy, a multilayer perceptron neural network with ten input variables in the initial layer, six neurons in the intermediate layer, and three neurons in the final layer was successfully trained. The results of our research demonstrate the existence of significant disparities in terms of telework adaptability, such as: low to moderate levels of adaptability (detected in countries such as Greece, Croatia, Portugal, Spain, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Italy); fair levels of adaptability (encountered in France, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, or Romania); and high levels of adaptability (exhibited by intensely digitalized economies such Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, etc.).

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Section: General Overview On the Degree Of Telework Embracement By Groups Of Eu Countriessupporting

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Using Neural Networks in Order to Analyze Telework Adaptability across the European Union Countries: A Case Study of the Most Relevant Scenarios to Occur in Romania

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“…Despite the numerous advantages of teleworking, there are also many disadvantages or challenges of it. Thus, while for some employees, telework meant efficiency, for others it meant destabilization, a difficult activity due to the lack of a clearly established program, the tools needed to carry out activities, lack of resources, reduced ability to concentrate and delays in meeting deadlines (Bălăcescu et al. , 2021).…”

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Inductive open data study on teleworking dissatisfaction in Spain during the Covid-19 pandemic

Curiel

Antonovica

Morales

2023

IJM

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PurposeThe research paper aims to study dissatisfaction of teleworking employees in Spain during the Covid-19 health pandemic in order to propose three models: sociodemographic profile of the teleworking dissatisfied employee; advantages and disadvantages for the teleworking dissatisfied employee and advantages for the teleworking dissatisfied employee.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses official open data obtained from the Spanish National Statistical Institute (INE, 2022) through Decision Trees statistical multivariable models implementing Classification and Regression Trees and Recursive Partitioning and Regression Trees techniques to determine the variables that can influence the satisfaction or dissatisfaction of the subjects.FindingsThis investigation offers three models with two sociodemographic profiles of dissatisfied teleworking employee, who is a high/middle-level manager/employee around 45 years old, and she/he lives with the partner. Regarding the most important advantage of teleworking, employees consider “use/saving of time” and as disadvantage “worse organization and coordination of work”.Originality/valueThis research provides empirical evidence with inductive reasoning on understanding the challenges of teleworking dissatisfied employees in Spain not only in turbulent times but also in “normalcy” to improve overall teleworker well-being and accomplish company’s and organization’s long-term objectives for better productivity and effectivity. The study has high practical value due to the integral approach incorporating dissatisfaction as a driver that can trigger negative behaviours towards the organizations and that is seldom addressed in the literature. Additionally, this paper could provide some new ideas for accomplishing “Spain Digital 2025” and “Europe’s Digital Decade: 2030” plans on institutional level.

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“…Within public organizations, both types of marketing must coexist to ensure that user needs and requirements are met. The efficiency of public governance and marketing resides in the ability to combine digital and traditional tools [95][96][97].…”

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Assessing Digital Transformation Acceptance in Public Organizations’ Marketing

Vărzaru

2022

Sustainability

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Digital transformation has a substantial impact on the activities of public organizations. The way public organizations conduct marketing has also changed due to digital transformation. This paper evaluates how digital transformation influences public organizations’ marketing activities in their employees’ perception and examines the changes triggered by digital technology in public marketing. The research results are based on the literature review empirical studies based on a survey conducted among 425 employees of public organizations in Romania in the marketing field. Using the technology acceptance model and structural equation modeling to analyze and interpret the data, the paper demonstrates that digital technologies have a substantial impact on marketing, in the perception of technology users, in helping to build relationships with the public, and in increasing citizens’ trust in public organizations. Digital technologies, by their significant characteristics (innovativeness, social influence, accessibility, and rapidity), have a significant impact on all public marketing activities. However, they are substantially transforming quantitative marketing research activities due to the digitization of financial accounting and managerial information systems, as well as interactive and transparent communication and public relations activities. Public organization managers must explain the benefits of digital marketing to employees from the internal branding perspective as well as the effectiveness of public marketing activities.

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Adaptability to Teleworking in European Countries

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Using Neural Networks in Order to Analyze Telework Adaptability across the European Union Countries: A Case Study of the Most Relevant Scenarios to Occur in Romania

Using Neural Networks in Order to Analyze Telework Adaptability across the European Union Countries: A Case Study of the Most Relevant Scenarios to Occur in Romania

Inductive open data study on teleworking dissatisfaction in Spain during the Covid-19 pandemic

Assessing Digital Transformation Acceptance in Public Organizations’ Marketing

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