Written by: Matthias Moelleney, Annina Coradi, Pamela Bethke, and Lorenz Ramseyer
Published by: Global Focus, The EFMD Business Magazine on 6/19/22
MBA News Digest Comment: Is it possible for smart working and remote working practices to be adapted to create smart learning and remote learning?
Extracted Content: The Corona pandemic has led to a surge in digital work. Home offices have gone from being the exception to the norm; in particular, the measures taken to combat the COVID-19 pandemic led to a very large number of workers, especially knowledge workers, being forced to work from home. In this sense, the percentage of people working from home in Switzerland has doubled from 25% to 50%.
A study by Rundstedt shows that most companies surveyed have not introduced smart working, however, but teleworking, which means they have simply moved the same processes that previously took place in the office to a remote location. Remote working is thus often understood as a technical phenomenon rather than an organisational, cultural, or management issue. This was not particularly surprising at first, because at the beginning of the pandemic, virtually no one was prepared for the widespread introduction of home-office work. The research suggests, however, that since the lockdown began, less has changed than one might suspect. Many work processes continue to run synchronously, unlike the usual practice in location- and time-independent remote work settings by means of asynchronous communication.