Remote Working in the Period of the COVİD-19

Working remotely was an option for the employees before the Covid-19 pandemic.However,it's become a new working format and compulsory for the white collars to work at home.Even if it seems attractive at first look,the new format of working style actually has caused lots of problems especially on employees'mental health.The social life,private comfort zone,and working environment of the workers have mixed with each other and the equilibrium among them which gave certainty and predictability is totally broken now.Actually,the employees started to search for a new normal and balance in the pandemic.I am planning to focus on occupational stress that popped up in the pandemic with regard remote working.It is structured to focus on the problems which are the broken balance between work and family,the problem of workload and over-working,the future ambiguity about the career,and miscommunication,to analyze how these problems bring out mental health disorder with giving experiments done by other researchers.In the final part,I will try to give some suggestions on how to get over it or reduce it.

Impact of Remote Working on the Employees During COVID-19 Pandemic-Conclusions From Creative Specialists and Software Developers in the Perspective of the Age of Industry 4.0

The objective of the article is identification of similarities in behavior and work attitude toward remote working in times of COVID-19 pandemic.Evaluation is concerned on employees of creative employees from different countries and business sectors.The author conducted research on Polish and American creative specialists,including software developers.Research conducted for this article in the first stage was qualitative,and in the second stage is based on quantitative methodology and secondary data from American research.The qualitative research conducted in Poland and was based on unstructured interviews with open-ended questions in the form of self-report concerning workflows during remote working.The first stage can be used as the starting point to next research of creative specialists from other countries.The quantitative research is based on secondary data from a study conducted among American employees of Microsoft Corporation.It was research made in the form of survey during COVID-19 pandemic(March-May 2020).The conclusions from each of the stages of research were used to create universal conclusions in the form of gathered key similarities and differences in behavior and wellbeing of creative specialist from different countries during remote working.The analysis included Industry 4.0 perspective-like market needs(e.g.building innovation which require a combination of creativity and technical skills)or condition of constant change.The research and analysis also reveals the potential for future research in the other countries and business sectors.

Working in Remote Areas Services are scarce in mountainous regions

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A New Cyber Risk: How Teens Expose Corporations in WFH Era

We analyze the risks associated with teenagers’ online activities and the potential migration of cyber threats originating from teenagers to their parents’ work-from-home (WFH) devices, even when defensive measures such as VPN are employed. Furthermore, we examine the serious implications these risks have on corporate security. Of particular concern, parents who work with confidential corporate information, such as financial projections or product roadmaps, might find that their kids are targeted by hackers who seek an easier entry-point to home networks and eventually WFH devices. This paper is timely since there is a rising trend of hybrid work in white-collar professions, mixing traditional in-office work with WFH. The latter is increasingly done in split shifts, including work performed before breakfast or after dinner. While this shift offers numerous workforce advantages and helps teen-parent bonding, it also introduces a plethora of cybersecurity risks, especially when these devices and networks are shared with teenagers on home networks. We did a structured survey of 62 teens which confirms that risky online activity abounds, so the threat of risk migration onto corporate networks should not be ignored. We perform a migration risk assessment and identify which teen-origin risks are most likely to contaminate parents’ WFH devices. We evaluate 20 attack vectors and generate 60 risk ratings. We classify 29 as high risk, 8 as medium risk, 13 as low risk, and 10 as not relevant. We offer recommendations to mitigate this new set of cyber risks.

Optimization Models for Hybrid Work Scheduling

Remote and Hybrid work has been a common practice for many organizations in recent years. It has many advantages such as offering a better work-life balance but it might also negatively affect productivity and teamwork. While an organization would like to satisfy the remote/hybrid preferences of its employees, it also must ensure that there are enough people working in the office to satisfy certain professional needs. Finding the right balance between in-office and remote work is not an easy task. We develop three optimization models to give solutions to the problem. The most comprehensive model allows employees to work remotely some days of the week and flexible hours for those weekdays when employees work in the office. Our computational results show that the models are very time-efficient in practice. The computational results also include a sensitivity analysis of the most comprehensive model.

Facing Both Challenges and Opportunities:How Can Financial Service Firms Survive Under the Pandemic?SOAR Analysis of Three Leading Firms in the Financial Service Industry

After the breakout of COVID-19,many entity industries have to shut down.The rapid decline of money transaction caused by the shutdown of the entity industries has shocked the financial service industry while the increase in digital transactions also offers them opportunities.Facing both challenges and opportunities,financial services firms should change their target and compensation policy during the pandemic to survive.After analysing three major firms in this industry by using SOAR method,we conclude four keys for financial services firms to survive in COVID-19.