COVID-19 Hastens Trend Towards More 'Dynamic' Workplace: U of T Researcher
Park, J. (2022, March 25). COVID-19 hastens trend towards more 'dynamic' workplace: U of T researcher. U of T News. https://www.utoronto.ca/news/covid-19-hastens-trend-toward-more-dynamic-workplace-u-t-researcher
Jessie Park writes: "For more than two decades, Jia Lin Xie has researched the relationships people have with their jobs. What factors influence work satisfaction, motivation and emotional or physical well-being? And how do different cultures and generations connect to their work?...In a 2018 paper published in Applied Psychology, Xie and her co-authors revealed a new class of work characteristics that had yet to be studied in management literature: 'boundarylessness' (the blurring lines between people’s work and non-work lives); multitasking (having to balance multiple projects at the same time); non-work-related interruptions (such as routine fire alarms in a condo building or caring for family members at home) and the growing demand for constant learning (pressure from employers to pursue professional development activities outside of work)."
"Dubbed 'hybrid work characteristics,' the four variables don’t neatly fit into the three categories of work characteristics that make up current management research: task (how the work is accomplished), social (the social environment at work) and contextual (the broader physical and organizational environment)...Taking survey data from 968 employees of various seniority levels across two large North American companies, the researchers found that boundarylessness, multitasking, non-work-related interruptions and the growing demand for constant learning have a direct impact on job satisfaction, occupational commitment, emotional exhaustion and health disorders such as insomnia. In the study, non-work-related interruptions were found to be most detrimental to an employee’s job satisfaction, occupational commitment, emotional and physical health."
Xie, J.L. et. al. (2018). Charting New Terrain in Work Design: A Study of Hybrid Work Characteristics. Applied Psychology 68(3), p. 479-512. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12169 ; UTL Link: https://iaap-journals-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/apps.12169
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Chen, T. (2022, February 4). This CEO Lets His Employees Work Whenever They Want—From Wherever They Want. The Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-next-wave-in-remote-work-flexibility-in-locationand-hours-11643993475 ; UTL Link: https://www-proquest-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/docview/2625303392/F4660785F47C4CFEPQ/1?accountid=14771
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Photo Source: Horvath, F. (2017). Utitled [Photograph]. Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/4gKHjKG7ty4
