What do We Know About the Effects of Teleworking? Considerations Regarding Psychology

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Abstract

The expansion of telework makes relevant to question what effects the modality has on workers. The psychological scientific production was chosen as the objective of this review, in order to analyze the contributions of the area to the understanding of the telework phenomenon. For this, the search engines "telecommuting", "telework" and "home office" were used in the databases of the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences (Lilacs), Psychology Electronic Journals (PEPsic) and APA PsycInfo, in the last 10 years, in English or Portuguese. Fourteen articles were selected. The results allow  identify the role of organizational support, the potential of the modality to promote workers' well-being, as well as the challenges in family-work reconciliation. In addition to the empirical results on telework, ways to access the phenomenon were identified, sometimes focusing on the characteristics of the work, sometimes on the specificities of the workers.

Keywords: telecommuting, psychology, literature review.

Author Biography

Fellipe Coelho-Lima, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil

He is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. He holds an undergraduate degree (2010), a master's degree (2013) and a doctorate (2016) in Psychology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. She is a member of the Group of Studies and Research on Work (GEPET/UFRN) and the Research Group Marxism & Education (GPM&E/UFRN). She has experience in the area of Social Psychology of Work, working mainly on the following themes: ideology at work, meaning/significance of work, informality, unemployment, social policies at work, Marxist/Marxian social theory.

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2022-07-01

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Vol. 22 No. 3 (2022): rPOT N3/2022

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