The health and well-being of remote and mobile workers

Crawford, Joanne; MacCalman, Laura; Jackson, Craig

doi:10.1093/occmed/kqr071

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“…The authors found that musculoskeletal symptoms among mobile workers improve with proper ergonomic interventions (Crawford et al, 2011). Strong evidence suggested that neck, shoulders, and low back were the most common areas of occupational injury (Crawford et al, 2011), validating the findings of the Hauke study. Loeppke et al (2013) found that "by utilizing the principles of safe design, musculoskeletal injuries on the job can be decreased when preventive interventions are correctly implemented" (p. 503).…”

Section: Stress At Worksupporting

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Musculoskeletal Safety for Older Adults in the Workplace

Delloiacono

2015

Workplace Health Saf

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Age-associated physical musculoskeletal alterations increase elder adults' (age 55 and older) risk for injury. Research has demonstrated that on-the-job injuries result in increased absenteeism, and fatalities are more common for the elder adult population. Older adults aged above 65 years comprise the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, growing from 40.2 million in 2010 to 88.5 million projected by 2050; this population shift will generate challenges for occupational health nurses providing care for older workers. A paucity of evidence-based "best practices" exists in which occupational health nurses can assess the physical status of older workers, evaluate their risk for age-related musculoskeletal injuries, and educate these workers on injury prevention. This article provides a critical synthesis of research on age-related physical and cognitive changes and their impact on safety, providing "best practice" evidence for occupational health nurses to examine and apply.

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Section: Stress At Worksupporting

confidence: 52%

Musculoskeletal Safety for Older Adults in the Workplace

Delloiacono

2015

Workplace Health Saf

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“…[2,15,27,28] These are summarised in Table 2. Teleworkers spend less time travelling, commuting and away from home.…”

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“…The overall effect on health is neither well known nor consensual. [27,30] Most empirical work reports positive and negative effects but there has been little analysis of the trade-offs associated with telework and its net benefits or net costs.…”

Section: Health Issues Associated With Teleworkmentioning

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“…These are risky behaviours that contribute to the development of musculoskeletal problems in the neck, shoulders, wrist, hand and lumbar regions. [22,27,37] Moreover, teleworkers do not socialise with colleagues and so they do not take health breaks, which are important for musculoskeletal relaxation, and they spend long hours seated, without appropriate breaks. [38,39] …”

Section: Musculoskeletal Problemsmentioning

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Telework and health effects review

Tavares

2017

IJH

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Telework is an increasingly popular flexible working arrangement. The aim of this article is to describe the features that characterize telework. The advantages and disadvantages of teleworking are outlined, as well as its effects on the health of the worker. The method used was a literature review. The outputs of this search show that in general, empirical evidence favours a positive association between telework and worker health. However, there are also negative impacts on health such as stress and depression. The overall conclusion is that telework is likely to yield more good than bad for individual health.

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“…The occupational health literature highlights how mobile workers, especially those spending large amounts of time driving, experience increased risk of musculoskeletal symptoms and lower levels of mental health due to long working days, high work demands, and lowered interaction with colleagues [19,20]. Mulki et al [55] identified that feelings of isolation in such workers could occur due to multivariate issues including a lack of personal contact with colleagues, losing a sense of camaraderie, and feelings of being 'left out'.…”

Section: Mobile and Lone Working And Occupational Healthmentioning

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Everything We Do, Everything We Press

Bakewell

Vasileiou

Long

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Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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This paper examines how data-driven performance monitoring technologies affect the work of telecommunications field engineers. As a mobile workforce, this occupational group rely on an array of smartphone applications to plan, manage and report on their jobs, and to liaise remotely with managers and colleagues. These technologies intend to help field engineers be more productive and have greater control over their work; however they also gather data related to the quantity and effectiveness of their labor. We conducted a qualitative study examining engineers' experiences of these systems. Our findings suggest they simultaneously enhance worker autonomy, support co-ordination with and monitoring of colleagues, but promote anxieties around productivity and the interpretation of data by management. We discuss the implications of datadriven performance management technologies on worker agency, and examine the consequences of such systems in an era of quantified workplaces.

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The health and well-being of remote and mobile workers

Abstract: There is little research currently available on the general health of RMWs and future research should examine this further and focus on general health and access to support services.

Cited by 51 publications

References 15 publications

Musculoskeletal Safety for Older Adults in the Workplace

Musculoskeletal Safety for Older Adults in the Workplace

Telework and health effects review

Everything We Do, Everything We Press

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