The Impact of Technological Developments on Remote Working: Insights from the Polish Managers’ Perspective

Maria Urbaniec, Agnieszka Małkowska and Hanna Włodarkiewicz-Klimek
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Agnieszka Małkowska: Department of Real Estate and Investment Economics, Cracow University of Economics, Rakowicka 27, 31-510 Krakow, Poland
Hanna Włodarkiewicz-Klimek: Institute for Management and Information Systems, Poznan University of Technology, Rychlewskiego 2, 60-965 Poznań, Poland

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-18

Abstract: “Stay at home” orders during the COVID-19 pandemic radically changed the day-to-day operations of many organizations and moved employees from offices to homes. The sudden crisis forced companies to reformulate their operations. Enabling employees to work from home has become a necessity for both business continuity and survival. The unexpected crisis has also proved to be beneficial for some aspects of economic activity. This research focuses on identifying and measuring the benefits of and barriers to remote work from an organizational perspective, as perceived by managerial staff in Poland. We investigate the factors that influence the assessment of the scale of benefits of and barriers to remote working. The study examines the impact of various factors on the benefits of and barriers to remote working, such as a company’s previous experience with remote working, the support provided to employees by the company, the monitoring of remote working effects, and the implementation of new IT tools. These results suggest that the way the company and employees are managed in a crisis, the approach of superiors to the evaluation and control of effects on work, and the adaptation of support to the real needs of employees, all play fundamental roles. The factors examined that influence the perceived benefits of or barriers to remote working from an organization’s perspective contribute to adoption theory.

Keywords: remote working; benefits; barriers; learning organization; technological developments; discipline (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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