Working from Home During Covid-19: How Do We ‘Do’ Social Interaction at a Distance?
2020
With the rapid adoption of homeworking by organisations across the world owing to Covid-19, employees have been separated from their informal, social networks in the traditional office space This paper explores how individuals maintain social interaction with colleagues when working remotely A diary study technique was employed and snowball sampling was used Initial results from the diaries of 29 participants are presented The findings highlight various challenges that homeworkers face, including task-related inefficiencies relating to technology-enabled communications in the absence of face-to-face interaction The paper ends by briefly highlighting how the study analysis will proceed © 2020, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing
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