Workplace Productivity in the Digital Era
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Midina Jean-Philippe
CoPIs:
Katerin Cardoza, Anais Munoz, Phillip Caldas
College:
College of Liberal Arts
Major:
Psychology
Faculty Research Advisor(s):
Ipek Kocoglu
Abstract:
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, those who work in an office space had to shift to remote work. Due to this drastic change, people in such a work space aren’t able to physically interact with anyone, instead, they’re talking to a screen and for those who work on projects alone, they’re not talking to anyone. While remote work can be beneficial when it comes to communication frequency, there is a decrease in productivity due to information overload. Working remotely has also taken away the worker’s ability to read nonverbal cues which is a key way of relaying information within the workplace. Especially with new employees, they are expected to join a team without ever meeting anyone in person. There are also fewer personal relationships with coworkers. In addition, employees are often given extreme workloads when working remotely. Therefore, there is often a strain in the workplace when the workers are expected to work remotely. There is no deep communication within the workplace and with no communication the way that the projects that are being worked on can have different outcomes in the end, it creates a mess and people need to put in more hours of work to get everything linear with everyone.