Resilience through digitalisation: How individual and organisational resources affect public employees working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic

Caroline Fischer, John Siegel, Isabella Proeller and Nicolas Drathschmidt

Public Management Review, 2023, vol. 25, issue 4, 808-835

Abstract: This article examines public service resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic and studies the switch to telework due to social distancing measures. We argue that the pandemic and related policies led to increasing demands on public organisations and their employees. Following the job demands-resources model, we argue that resilience only can arise in the presence of resources for buffering these demands. Survey data were collected from 1,189 German public employees, 380 participants were included for analysis. The results suggest that the public service was resilient against the crisis and that the shift to telework was not as demanding as expected.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2022.2037014

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