Ensuring Employees’ Occupational Wellbeing and Engagement in Remote Work
Toivonen, Juulia (2022)
2022
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2022111823018
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2022111823018
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The objective of this work was to research remote working, work engagement and work wellbeing, the connections between these concepts and then apply the theory to create a survey to gather data.
The survey was aimed at young adults that worked remotely during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This group was chosen for the primary data collection as the younger age groups are more likely to have started working during the pandemic and thus have only experienced this remote work or have less experience of working on-site and this would give a different insight into the matter.
Many of the practices and theories considering work engagement and work wellbeing and their interconnected nature seemed to hold true to many of the respondents of the survey.
It was concluded that even if the situation was unfortunate, good things were found about working from home and that using a hybrid model would present many great opportunities if utilized even after the COVID-19 pandemic has calmed down. Work wellbeing and engagement can be supported even in remote work using personalized methods and understanding the needs of the employees.
The survey was aimed at young adults that worked remotely during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This group was chosen for the primary data collection as the younger age groups are more likely to have started working during the pandemic and thus have only experienced this remote work or have less experience of working on-site and this would give a different insight into the matter.
Many of the practices and theories considering work engagement and work wellbeing and their interconnected nature seemed to hold true to many of the respondents of the survey.
It was concluded that even if the situation was unfortunate, good things were found about working from home and that using a hybrid model would present many great opportunities if utilized even after the COVID-19 pandemic has calmed down. Work wellbeing and engagement can be supported even in remote work using personalized methods and understanding the needs of the employees.