Have a personal or library account? Click to login
Organizational Dynamics of the Rise of Telework as an Adaptive Response to a Global Pandemic Cover

Organizational Dynamics of the Rise of Telework as an Adaptive Response to a Global Pandemic

Open Access
|Sep 2021

Abstract

The use of remote working options has saved jobs and reduced health risks inherent to the rise of COVID-19. The opportunity to use telework has allowed organizations to engage in operational activities by leveraging virtual teams’ potential. Organizations offering workers to work remotely have become financial salvation for many workers during the pandemic, significantly since the pandemic impacted the U.S. economy so severely that more than since more than 57 million American workers have filed for unemployment government benefits in just 2020. While having a telework option is an assurance of organizational sustainability or continual employment, it represents a unique opportunity for exploration for employees, supervisors, and organizations attempting to adapt to this evolving level of complex change. This paper uses applied qualitative focus group research from a process consulting to explore the values and barriers that telework for a real estate title organization called XRO.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/raft-2021-0028 | Journal eISSN: 3100-5071 | Journal ISSN: 3100-5063
Language: English
Page range: 209 - 222
Published on: Sep 27, 2021
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2021 Darrell Norman Burrell, Terila Johnson, Anton Shufutinsky, Dana-Marie Ramjit, published by Nicolae Balcescu Land Forces Academy
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.