Working from home during COVID-19: What do employees really want?
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Author(s): Johanna Weststar, Carolyn Troup, David Peetz, Ioana Ramia, Sean O’Brady, Shalene Werth, Shelagh Campbell, Susan Ressia
Date: November 4, 2020
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there has been lots of talk about how people have reacted to being forced to work from home.
But there hasn’t been much information on what they really think, how they’ve been affected and what will happen from here.
We studied 11,000 employees in Canadian and Australian universities through an online survey. In both countries, most universities shifted much of their work online earlier this year. These are our preliminary results about employee experiences. It’s a mixed picture, but it tells us that a lot of change is ahead and that workers should be part of the discussion about how their workplaces respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
But there hasn’t been much information on what they really think, how they’ve been affected and what will happen from here.
We studied 11,000 employees in Canadian and Australian universities through an online survey. In both countries, most universities shifted much of their work online earlier this year. These are our preliminary results about employee experiences. It’s a mixed picture, but it tells us that a lot of change is ahead and that workers should be part of the discussion about how their workplaces respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.