Grand Summary

For my grand summary of this blog assignment,  we have looked at five different articles for the effects covid-19 and the pandemic had on the workplace, employees, and workplace behavior's. We looked at a variety of research and what we have found are a few similarities between these articles and some differences in research topics.

Some Similarities I have found are a lot of research was directed towards the work from home topic. Alot of studies were trying to find if there were positive or negative effects of working from home. Most of the research styles were done by surveying people in the work force from around the world within the past three years. Surprisingly ( at least for me) there seemed to be quiet a bit of positive studies for working from home. Both from the employees of enjoy being at there homes more, but also companies continuing to effectively run their business with less people in their companies’ offices. Before Covid I would have thought this idea would have been impossible, but as a lot of these studies did discuss how technology advancement has had a lot to do with people being able to work from home effectively. I also noticed a lot of these studies were focused on employees well being and organizational support. This is great to see being brought out into the light of focus as it is important to have a sense of work, life-balance in your life and if there is organizational support that is even better. I have worked in jobs were there would be very little support from the company to the employers and it is not ideal. This does not effect everyone as some jobs did require people to come into the office or continue working in there fields. For example doctors, nurses and labor jobs did require people to continue working even through the pandemic. With out these essential workers, office job workers could not continue to work from home as there would be no one to continue with the labor portion of the economy. So for all those essential workers, we thank you!

Some of the differences I had come across in the studies was of the workplace behaviors. They were not necessarily conflicting differences with each study, but more what was chosen to be studied.  Some studies had focused on leadership styles and why they have changed during the Covid and what has caused them to change. Another study might of highlights inequalities within people during the pandemic and some of the struggles they had to endure. 

All these studies are very important at seeing how the world has changed in the workplace but also we can effectively manage and tackle these kinds of changes. How we can help and manage people during a crisis and adapt to these changes and continue to thrive. With a unpredictable future, we could very well go into another lockdown or pandemic, and we these key studies, we can build a roadmap for helping people and business's for future generations.