Employee acceptance of remote work /

Abstract

The development of Information and Communication Technologies caused an increase of remote work. This was followed by COVID pandemic which encouraged businesses to use it in even larger scale. However, not all employees accepted that change well. Previous studies indicated that employees feel more stressed and in conflict at their remote workstations when they had to telework during the lockdown, and that this negative output was significantly related to the deterioration of some work dimensions like SPACE, QUALITY and DESIGN proposed by Rymaniak et al.[1]. This current article presents the results of a research carried out in Lithuania regarding remote work acceptance by employees. Research results lead to employee profiles which define conditions for better acceptance and less resistance in workplace environment changes. This helps to identify necessary measures for employee’s education, preparation for changes or other type of managerial solutions in order to increase productivity.