{"id":673998,"date":"2020-07-09T20:38:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T03:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-research-item&#038;p=673998"},"modified":"2023-02-13T11:33:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T19:33:57","slug":"remote-workers-wellbeing-in-the-age-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"msr-research-item","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/remote-workers-wellbeing-in-the-age-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote workers\u2019 wellbeing in the age of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Social isolation measures used worldwide to reduce the impacts of COVID-19 led many office workers to work remotely with little notice. While researchers have studied remote collaboration for more than two decades, the scale and context of remote work during a pandemic is unprecedented and has changed personal and work dynamics. In this paper, we discuss the results of a survey study investigating the impact of remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, informed by Olson & Olson\u2019s framework for distributed collaboration. We report preliminary findings from this study, focusing specifically on workers\u2019 wellbeing. Our results suggest that the main factors influencing workers\u2019 well beings are Common Ground Challenges, Collaboration Readiness, Collaboration Technology Readiness, Organizational Management, and Interruptions.<\/p>\n<h3>Keywords<\/h3>\n<p>distributed collaboration, wellbeing, social isolation<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Remote workers\u2019 wellbeing in the age of COVID-19\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ewZ4br4-OAM?feature=oembed&rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>ABOUT THE AUTHOR\/S<\/h3>\n<p><strong>CLARA CALDEIRA<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Par\u00e1, Brazil<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:claramcaldeira@gmail.com\">claramcaldeira@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Clara Caldeira is a Postdoctoral researcher at University of Par\u00e1, in Brazil. She holds a PhD and Master\u2019s degree in Informatics from UC Irvine and a Bachelor&#8217;s degree in Computer Science from the University of Brasilia. She conducts research on the fields of HCI and social computing, and health informatics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>LET\u00cdCIA S. MACHADO<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Par\u00e1, Brazil<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:leticia.smachado@gmail.com\">leticia.smachado@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MARCELO G. PERIN<\/strong><br \/>\nFunda\u00e7\u00e3o Getulio Vargas, Brazil<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:mperin25@gmail.com\">mperin25@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CLEIDSON R. B. DE SOUZA<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Par\u00e1, Brazil<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:cleidson.desouza@acm.org\">cleidson.desouza@acm.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><small><em>New Future of Work 2020, August 3\u20135, 2020<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a9 2020 Copyright held by the owner\/author(s).<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABSTRACT Social isolation measures used worldwide to reduce the impacts of COVID-19 led many office workers to work remotely with little notice. While researchers have studied remote collaboration for more than two decades, the scale and context of remote work during a pandemic is unprecedented and has changed personal and work dynamics. 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