Things that make it difficult to assess the impact of a #telework program on #productivity, and how to solve them.

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1/5 1) Placebo or Hawthorne effects generate temporary telework productivity gains: people increase their productivity because they are being watched

Solution: assess productivity changes in the longer term
2/5

During forced #remotework, employees who perceived greater job control reported lower exhaustion and higher work-life balance, but this was conditional on their segmentation preferences.
#research
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buff.ly/3GPNyNn Let’s unpack this a little. First, the main terms:

1) Job control
The job demands-control (#JDC) theory of stress (Karasek, 1979) posits that when employees are subjected to a high level of job demands at work it increases strain on employees,

The Truth About #OpenOffices
”When the firms switched to open offices, face-to-face interactions fell by 70%.”

#HRM #WorkplaceDesign hbr.org/2019/11/the-tr… But ”hybrid #openoffice designs are not a panacea. If you are going to let people choose the spaces that best meet their individual needs, your workers might as well be remote.”
#remotework