In Spain, the COVID-19 confinement was carried out in spring of 2020. All non-essential activities were temporarily suspended. This brought with it adaptation to home office (telework), still emerging Europe, and more Spain. Although response general has been positive, conditions which families have subjected telework cannot be considered normal. this context, an online survey requested find ex...

The present study mainly investigates the psychological strain of mobile workers who use information and communication technology. Data was collected via an onlinequestionnaire. More than 200 participants took part. The results show that the ergonomic conditions of mobile workers should be improved. Flexibility and decision-making latitude associated with mobile work are evaluated quite positiv...

There is a growing need for research examining the e!ective implementation and management of teleworking as it is increasingly being used as an organizational work structure. The enhanced functionality of many information technologies facilitates the completion of work across geographically dispersed teleworkers while simultaneously providing a vehicle to overcome social isolation that has been...

Patricia Vendramin is a project manager at the Work & Technology Research Unit of the Fondation Travail-Universite in Namur. She has a background in sociology (1981) and communication sciences (1983); she also completed a master degree in development studies (1983), both at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, where she started doing research in 1983. She is a researcher at the FTU since 1988 an...

Objective. This is an integrative review to analyze the factors that influenced prevalence of neck pain in period before Covid-19 pandemic and compare it with caused during pandemic. Methods. The bibliographic survey was divided into two different steps: first include articles published between 2015 2019 selection 18 used following keywords: pain, work, prevalence; databases were PubMed Google ...

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and its accompanying restrictive measures have led to a sudden digitalization of all areas work many knowledge workers now working entirely from home. Especially, the use information communication technologies (ICT) has been associated with negative outcomes such as technology overload. Interacting is dynamic employees often face ICT events that are r...