Purpose To give insight into human resource (HR) policy makers of the impact of the abrupt change in working conditions as reported from their primary stakeholders - the employees Design/methodology/approach Reported from a first-person point of view, 192 employees from Kuwait who are currently working from home were surveyed as to how the lockdown circumstances have impacted their conventional work expectations The study compares the old working conditions (OWC) to the current working conditions (CWC) to give insight into the overall sentiments of the abrupt changes to the workplace Findings It was found that most employees agreed that OWC need to be reviewed, and that the general sentiment was almost equally split on the efficiency of CWC in comparison to OWC, yet the majority was enjoying the flexible conditions Moreover, the majority of respondents found that overall conventional work elements either remained the same or had been impacted positively rather than negatively Also, if given an option of a hybrid model inclusive of partly working remotely and partly working on-site, a considerable majority reported that they are able to efficiently conduct atleast 80% of their work expectation Finally, it was found that employee expectation is changing as they consider post COVID-19 conditions Research limitations/implications This research was conducted using virtual crowd-sourcing methods to administer the survey and may have been enhanced should other methods have been integrated for data gathering Also, a more comprehensive phenomenological approach could have been incorporated to add a qualitative method to the investigation This could have freed the results of answer limitation and experience bias Moreover, it is good practice to involve both quantitative and qualitative elements to any research when possible Finally, future research can benefit from a bigger pool of participants so as to gain a clearer picture Originality/value This research will give policy makers a look at what needs to be reviewed/changed for a successful roll-out of remote work in accordance with their original strategies

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COVID-19大流行对常规工作环境的影响

目的使人力资源（HR）决策者深入了解主要利益相关者-员工报告的工作条件突然变化的影响从第一人称角度报告的设计/方法/方法从第一人称角度报告，来自科威特的192名员工调查了目前在家工作的人的锁定情况如何影响了他们的常规工作期望。该研究将旧工作条件（OWC）与当前工作条件（CWC）进行了比较，以洞察到突然变化的总体情绪。工作场所的发现发现，大多数员工都同意需要对OWC进行审查，并且与OWC相比，人们对CWC的效率几乎持平，但大多数人都享受着灵活的条件。此外，大多数受访者发现，总体常规工作要素要么保持不变，要么受到正面影响而不是受到负面影响。此外，如果给出了包括部分远程工作和部分现场工作在内的混合模式选项，则相当多的人报告说他们能够有效地完成至少80％的工作期望最后，发现员工期望在考虑COVID-19之后的状况时正在发生变化。研究局限性/含义该研究使用虚拟众包方法进行调查，并且可能如果集成了其他方法来收集数据，则功能得到了增强，此外，可以采用更全面的现象学方法来为研究添加定性方法。这可以释放出答案限制和经验偏见的结果。此外，优良作法是在可能的情况下将定量和定性元素纳入任何研究之中可以从更多的参与者中受益，从而获得更清晰的画面。原创性/价值。这项研究将使决策者能够根据自己的原始策略，对需要进行哪些审核/更改以成功开展远程工作进行研究。未来的研究可以从更多的参与者中受益，从而获得更清晰的画面原创性/价值这项研究将使政策制定者能够了解需要进行哪些审查/更改，以便根据其原始工作成功开展远程工作策略未来的研究可以从更多的参与者中受益，从而获得更清晰的画面原创性/价值这项研究将使政策制定者了解为了使远程工作成功地按照其原始内容进行审核/需要更改的内容策略