Collaborating During Coronavirus: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Nature of Work

DeFilippis, Evan; Impink, Stephen Michael; Singell, Madison; Polzer, Jeffrey T.; Sadun, Raffaella

doi:10.3386/w27612

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“…Most research so far has been devoted to how the pandemic has altered employee productivity ( 3 , 4 ). A survey of 4,535 principal investigators revealed that female scientists with young children living at home experienced a decline in time spent on research ( 5 ).…”

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A multicountry perspective on gender differences in time use during COVID-19

Giurge

Whillans

Yemiscigil

2021

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered how people spend time, with possible consequences for subjective well-being. Using diverse samples from the United States, Canada, Denmark, Brazil, and Spain (n = 31,141), following a preregistered analytic plan, and employing both mega- and meta-analyses, we find consistent gender differences in time spent on necessities. During the pandemic, women—especially mothers—spent more time on tasks such as childcare and household chores. To the extent that women spent more time on chores than men, they reported lower happiness. These data represent one of the most rigorous investigations of gender differences in time use during the forced lockdowns created by the COVID-19 pandemic, and point toward individual differences that should be considered when designing policies now and post–COVID-19.

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A multicountry perspective on gender differences in time use during COVID-19

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Whillans

Yemiscigil

2021

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

142

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“…First, what we know of work practices during the COVID-19 is very limited despite more than one third of the U.S. workforce transitioned to WFH during the pandemic [1] -and many believe that WFH is here to stay [5]. Yet, empirical studies on the topic is very rare [4,6,29,30]. Accordingly, our first contribution is providing insights on a phenomenon that has become very prevalent but very less known.…”

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“…Second contribution of this study is that it employs ICT (information and communication technologies) data while most prior studies were self-report based, and therefore suffer from well-known survey issues such as selectivity biases, response biases, and item-characteristic biases [31]. The only other work that uses ICT metadata for analyzing the effect of mandatory WFH is [29]. Although that study is sound from an external validity perspective, their data is at metropolitan area level and did not give itself in to analyze any heterogeneity effect of WFH on communication patterns.…”

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Exploring the Impact of Mandatory Remote Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Oz¹,

Crooks²

2020

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During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people had to work from home. We examine the ways in which COVID-19 affect organizational communication by analyzing five months of calendar and messaging metadata from a technology company. We found that: (i) cross-level communication increased more than that of same-level, (ii) while within-team messaging increased considerably, meetings stayed the same, (iii) off-hours messaging became much more frequent, and that this effect was stronger for women; (iv) employees respond to non-managers faster than managers; finally, (v) the number of short meetings increased while long meetings decreased. These findings contribute to theories on organizational communication, remote work, management, and flexibility stigma. Besides, this study exemplifies a strategy to measure organizational health using an objective (not self-report based) method. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study using workplace communication metadata to examine the heterogeneous effects of mandatory remote work.

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“…The effect on productivity of the current shock is unknown. Newly-remote urban office workers work longer days, have more, but shorter, meetings and do more email (DeFilippis et al., 2020). While 29% of workers in Felstead and Reuschke’s survey report higher output, 30% say it had fallen.…”

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