Teleworking in the Context of the Covid-19 Crisis

Teleworking in the Context of the Covid-19 Crisis

ÁNGEL BELZUNEGUI ERASO, Amaya Erro-Garcés

This article aims to analyze the implementation of teleworking as a security practice to face the crisis resulting from the Covid-19 disease. The present paper provides both theoretical and practical results. From a theoretical standpoint, the Baruch and Nicholson approach is extended with environmental, safety, and legal factors that explain telework. From a practical perspective, a database of companies that have introduced telework as a measure to face coronavirus in a crisis context has been obtained. In short, the Covid-19 crisis demonstrates how teleworking has been used by companies to ensure their employees’ safety and to provide continuity to economic activity. Consequently, safety factors are relevant in the study of teleworking and should be considered in further research.

2020

crisis, sustainability, security, Telework, Safety factors, COVID-19

DOI: 10.3390/su12093662

Sustainability

MDPI AG

Environmental sciences, Renewable energy sources, Environmental effects of industries and plants