Impacts of COVID-19: A research agenda to support people in their fight

Viswanath Venkatesh

International Journal of Information Management, 2020, vol. 55, issue C

Abstract: Grounded in the vast changes to work life (jobs) and home life that people are facing due to the COVID-19 pandemic (hereinafter COVID), this article presents five research directions related to COVID’s impacts on jobs—i.e., job loss, job changes, job outcomes, coping, and support—and five research directions related to COVID’s impact on home life—i.e., home life changes, children, life-related outcomes, social life, and support. In addition to this, I discuss overarching possible research directions and considerations for researchers, editors, and reviewers, as we continue our scientific journey to support people through this pandemic and beyond. I organize these directions and considerations into two sets of five each: focal groups that should be studied—i.e., underprivileged populations, different countries and cultural contexts, women (vs. men), workers in healthcare (frontline workers), elderly and at-risk—and five general issues and special considerations—i.e., role of technology as the oxygen, pre- vs. mid- vs. post-COVID studies, constraints on data collection/research due to COVID, evolution of COVID, and focus on contextualization (generalizability is irrelevant).

Keywords: COVID-19 impacts; Work life impacts; Home life impacts; Stress; Satisfaction; Work-family conflict; Research agenda (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102197

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