Teleworking in the Context of the Covid-19 Crisis

Angel Belzunegui-Eraso and Amaya Erro-Garcés
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Angel Belzunegui-Eraso: Social & Business Research Laboratory, Rovira i Virgili University, 43002 Tarragona, Spain
Amaya Erro-Garcés: Department of Business Management, Public University of Navarra, 31006 Pamplona, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 9, 1-18

Abstract: This article aims to analyze the implementation of teleworking as a security practice to face the crisis resulting from the Covid-19 disease. The present paper provides both theoretical and practical results. From a theoretical standpoint, the Baruch and Nicholson approach is extended with environmental, safety, and legal factors that explain telework. From a practical perspective, a database of companies that have introduced telework as a measure to face coronavirus in a crisis context has been obtained. In short, the Covid-19 crisis demonstrates how teleworking has been used by companies to ensure their employees’ safety and to provide continuity to economic activity. Consequently, safety factors are relevant in the study of teleworking and should be considered in further research.

Keywords: telework; Covid-19; crisis; security; safety factors; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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