Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:54:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marilia de Gonzaga Lima e Silva Tose.pdf: 516528 bytes, checksum: a6db7d9076116b3d8cd16359d8a7529c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-04-28 / The aim of the present study is to analyze telework and the subjective organization of the agents involved. Telework is a new form of working, performed from home and using information technology and telecommunications. A qualitative, exploratory and empirical research was done, interviewing twenty-one teleworkers from two enterprises, chosen according to the criterion of accessibility. We started analyzing the changing process from the traditional workplace in an organization s office to the new remote form, focussing mainly on the feelings of the people. We also emphasized the life of the workers at home and the intersubjectivities with their families. The problems resulting from a new space-time dimension, the issue of new roles assumed and the identifications that led to new identities, those aspects were all studied in depth. We still approached the social relationship between the interviewees and their colleagues and managers of the enterprises they work for. The resulting data showed that working at home can lead to improvement in the quality of life (well-being). The worker is freer and has more autonomy to organize him/herself, applying his/her own rhythm to professional tasks. The use of a domestic workplace, however, requires an adaptation of the intersubjectivities. It is necessary to find a balance between the different scenes the working and the family one- coexisting in the same space. In this study, it can be observed that teleworkers achieve the above demands. There seem to be gains in the family relationships, due to the fact that workers are more available for domestic routines without neglecting either professional commitment or involvement. It was still noticed and analyzed some rather uneasy feeling caused by the (physical) distance to the entrepreneurial environment. There are losses in the relationship with colleagues and the employing organization, which can jeopardize the career development and become a suffering. According to the way the teleworkers adapt themselves to the new working relationships, the suffering can grow into a pathology or otherwise, become creative / O presente estudo teve por objetivo pesquisar uma nova forma de trabalho, denominada teletrabalho. Nela, os trabalhadores exercem suas funções no âmbito doméstico, utilizando-se da informática e de equipamentos de telecomunicações. O objetivo específico foi analisar essa prática e a organização subjetiva dos agentes envolvidos. Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa empírica, exploratória e qualitativa, através da qual se obteve depoimentos de vinte e um teletrabalhadores de duas empresas, escolhidas pelo critério de acessibilidade. Foi primeiramente analisado o processo de mudança da forma tradicional de trabalhar, no escritório das organizações, para a forma remota, principalmente no que diz respeito aos sentimentos dos sujeitos. Também mereceu destaque a vida do teletrabalhador no espaço doméstico e suas intersubjetividades com a família, tendo sido aprofundados os problemas resultantes de uma nova dimensão espaço-temporal, a questão dos papéis assumidos e as identificações que levaram a novas identidades. Foram ainda abordadas as relações sociais dos depoentes com seus colegas e gestores das empresas. Os resultados mostraram que trabalhar em casa pode levar a uma melhor qualidade de vida (well-being), tendo o trabalhador maior liberdade e autonomia para se organizar, imprimindo um ritmo próprio ao tempo que dedica às atividades profissionais. Porém, o uso do espaço doméstico exige uma acomodação das intersubjetividades, sendo necessária a busca de equilíbrio entre diferentes cenários - do trabalho e da família que passam a conviver no mesmo espaço. Neste estudo, pôde-se observar que tudo isso vem sendo conseguido pelos teletrabalhadores. Parece haver, de fato, um ganho nos relacionamentos familiares, pela maior disponibilidade para o cotidiano doméstico, sem perda de envolvimento e compromisso profissional. Foi ainda observado e analisado um certo mal estar causado pela distância física do ambiente empresarial. Há uma perda no relacionamento com colegas e com a organização, o que pode comprometer o desenvolvimento da carreira e levar a um sofrimento. Dependendo da forma como esses trabalhadores se apropriam dessa nova relação de trabalho, esse sofrimento pode se tornar patogênico ou, ao contrário, criativo

This study aims to contribute to an understanding of how the credibility of asylum-seekers is being assessed in the UK; how narratives are valued by decision-makers and tribunal judges, how applicants’ credibility is determined, and what issues may be found with this process. I conducted interviews with seven lawyers who represent asylum-seekers, one decision-maker and one retired tribunal judge to establish their perspectives on the assessment of credibility in the UK. I then analysed these results through the theoretical framework of the sociology of law, focusing on the theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault. I firstly examined specific problematic areas in the practice of credibility assessment, before going on to explore broader contextual factors which may help to explain such issues. This study found that the greatest problems with credibility assessment in practice were demanding expectations of asylum-seekers and misapplication of the government guidelines on credibility, miscommunications and mistranslations, and a lack of considered reasoning in decision-making. These issues were shown to be driven by five main factors: a culture of disbelief, a lack of resources, information and communication issues, ineffective guidelines and the inherently subjective nature of credibility. The results of this study bring into question the neutrality and efficacy of the current system of credibility assessment in practice and its capacity to protect those fleeing persecution under the 1951 Refugee Convention.

This work aims to determine the causes and consequences of workaholism in women working in corporate who had to move from offices to home offices during the coronavirus crisis. The research is conducted on a sample of fourteen women respondents and one male respondent. The selection was made using the snowball method based on age, education, marital status and employment in Alza.cz or Mall.cz e-shops. All participants answered open questions in essays focused on their home office work habits, daily routine and family relationship. Data were analyzed using grounded theory, based on which I developed eight categories - interest in work, stress/fear, workspace, work schedule, setting boundaries between work and personal life, leisure activities, social interactions and roles in the household. These I subsequently organized and discussed in connection with previous research focused on workaholism, work from home and work-family conflict, such as Samantha Ammons, Cecilia Andreassen or Bryan Robinson. The conclusion of the thesis summarizes the results, the limits of the study and recommendations for future research.

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Submitted by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2011-09-21T12:34:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 SMAHA_H,_Trabalho_e_Familia_no_contexto_do_teletrabalho_-_EBAPE_2009.pdf: 583842 bytes, checksum: 93c08cd34875730dc91984239e6832c4 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2011-09-21T12:34:48Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 SMAHA_H,_Trabalho_e_Familia_no_contexto_do_teletrabalho_-_EBAPE_2009.pdf: 583842 bytes, checksum: 93c08cd34875730dc91984239e6832c4 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2011-09-21T12:35:29Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 SMAHA_H,_Trabalho_e_Familia_no_contexto_do_teletrabalho_-_EBAPE_2009.pdf: 583842 bytes, checksum: 93c08cd34875730dc91984239e6832c4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2011-09-21T12:35:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SMAHA_H,_Trabalho_e_Familia_no_contexto_do_teletrabalho_-_EBAPE_2009.pdf: 583842 bytes, checksum: 93c08cd34875730dc91984239e6832c4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Esta dissertação tem como objetivo contribuir para o conhecimento sobre o teletrabalho, especialmente, sobre a dinâmica da realização do trabalho na esfera familiar, a partir do home-office telework. Investigou-se de que maneira os teletrabalhadores e sua família dão sentido aos dilemas, oportunidades e exigências da realização do trabalho no ambiente familiar, à luz de suas práticas discursivas. Para tanto, entrevistas semi-estruturadas foram realizadas com 25 teletrabalhadores e seus co-residentes e analisadas sob a ótica da análise de conteúdo. A pesquisa revela que quando a casa dá lugar às atividades profissionais do indivíduo, as relações entre as demandas pessoais, familiares e profissionais se tornam mais próximas, diluídas e entrelaçadas. A aproximação das esferas de trabalho e não-trabalho conduz a uma ruptura nas dinâmicas espaciais, temporais e psicológicas desses domínios, proporcionando aos indivíduos oportunidades de desenvolvimento pessoal. No entanto, as mudanças pelas quais os mesmos terão de passar apresentam potencialidades contraditórias. Ao mesmo tempo em que o teletrabalho proporciona uma oportunidade de integração com a família e flexibilidade para o melhor aproveitamento do tempo de trabalho e não-trabalho, a dificuldade de equilibrar dois mundos construídos sobre discursos diversos, o mundo da casa e da rua, pode despontar uma crise, dependendo do preparo de cada família para essa situação de trabalho. A fim de auxiliar na interpretação dos resultados, os pontos de conteúdo mais expressivos, os quais ilustram o exposto acima, foram expostos em quatro temas relacionados ao telehomework: espaço, flexibilidade de tempo, gênero e equilíbrio trabalho-vida pessoal. / This research aims at fostering understanding of telework, especially its dynamic when working is carried out at home domains, through the practice of the home-based telework. It explores how teleworkers make sense out of the dilemmas, opportunities and demands of teleworking from home, through the analysis of their discursive practices. Therefore, semistructured interviews were conducted with a sample of 25 teleworkers and their respective coresidents and analyzed using the method of content analysis. The study reveals that when the home gives place to the professional activities of an individual, the relationship among the personal, family and professional demands become closer, blurred and interlaced. The merging of the working and non-working spheres conducts to a rupture of the spatial, temporal and psychological contours of these domains, bringing the individuals selfdevelopment opportunities. However, the transformations that these individuals will have to face represent contradictory potentialities. Whilst telework brings an opportunity of family integration and flexibility for the better use of working and non-working time, the difficulty of balancing two cultural systems constructed over distinct discourses, the private sphere and the public sphere, may lead to a crisis, depending on the preparation of each family to receive this mode of working from home. In order to contribute to the interpretation of the results, the most expressive topics, which illustrate the above exposed, were presented in four themes related to telehomework: space, time flexibility, gender and work-life balance.

Todays digitized society have open up for new types of office arrangements and possibilities of working from home in a higher extend. This thesis is based on the flexible working culture that is increasing, which means more personal responsibility regarding ergonomic and environment conditions as well as artifacts needed for a well equipped workplace outside the traditional office. Furniture dealers are having a new approach as open office hubs and home office environment are increasing with new needs. This project contains of a small investigation of which artifacts are needed and wanted from a customer perspective in the home environment due to these new behaviors.  This thesis will as well show the outcome and process of one product in a collection of 5 stationary objects. The name of the project is as well the name of the collection. This project consists of two main objectives, customer orientation and product development.

El objetivo de este trabajo de investigación es validar el proyecto de negocio de instalación y comercialización de ventanas que reducen el ruido, Easy Windows dirigido a los hogares de Lima Metropolitana pertenecientes a los segmentos A y B que presentan el problema de ruidos externos en su hogares. Para ello, se realizaron diferentes metodologías cualitativas y cuantitativas como entrevistas a profundidad, encuestas y la creación de un producto mínimo viable para confirmar la existencia del problema y confirmar la hipótesis. Así también se comprobaron algunos objetivos específicos como la disposición del mercado objetivo a invertir en una solución a los ruidos externos. Además de comprobar cuales son los principales factores en los que se ven afectados los hogares a causa de este problema. El problema de contaminación sonora existe varias décadas atrás pero se ha agudizado a raíz del confinamiento producto de la pandemia Covid 19, ya que se han generado nuevos hábitos y por ende nuevas necesidades. Es así que existe una gran oportunidad de negocio al solucionar este problema a través de la comercialización de ventanas de aluminio y vidrio que reducen el ruido. Finalmente, nuestro plan de negocios arroja resultados financieros óptimos con una TIR de 141.54%y un VAN de $ 598,609. Por lo tanto, podemos concluir que, de acuerdo al análisis realizado en el presente proyecto, el desarrollo de la empresa Easy Windows es viable económicamente. / The objective of this research work is to validate the business project for the installation and sell of windows that reduce noise, Easy Windows, aimed at homes in Metropolitan Lima belonging to segments A and B that present the problem of external noise in their homes. For this, different qualitative and quantitative methodologies were carried out, such as in-depth interviews, surveys, and the creation of a minimum viable product to confirm the existence of the problem and confirm the hypothesis. Thus, some specific objectives were also verified, such as the willingness of the target market to invest in a solution to external noise. In addition to verifying which are the main factors in which homes are affected because of this problem. The noise pollution problem has existed for several decades but has worsened as a result of the confinement caused by the Covid 19 pandemic since new habits and therefore new needs have been generated. Thus, there is a great business opportunity to solve this problem through the commercialization of aluminum and glass windows that reduce noise. Finally, our business plan produces optimal financial results with an IRR of 141.54% and an NPV of $ 598,609. Therefore, we can conclude that, according to the analysis carried out in this project, the development of the Easy Windows company is economically viable. / Trabajo de investigación

This thesis aims to interpret the changed interactions and communication in the workplace due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Due to the massive changes in society and the workplace, it is important to look into this aspect of the pandemic’s consequences. The research question “What impact does the expedited digitalisation of communication, caused by the global pandemic of 2020, have on the experienced interactions in organisational contexts?” allows for easy access into different aspects of the topic by conducting the study relatively broadly. In order to answer the research question, semi-structured interviews with employees, who were working during the pandemic, were held and all necessary data was extracted from these interviews. This data was then interpreted in light of the four principal theoretical topics: Communication, Social Interaction, Work Life and Leadership Relations. Certain similarities, but also paradoxes were discovered in the findings, and therefore discussed through paradoxical lenses. The basic findings concerning the research question are that many changes happened in opposing directions, for example having at the same time more, but also less communication. This double shift applies to almost all findings. To put these findings into practical use, organisations and companies should consider their team’s needs and optimise the working structures between hybrid and on-site in order to get the best possible working results.

This Master Thesis, inspired by the relevance that home-offices have assumed as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, originated from the architectural, quantitative, and qualitative analysis of lighting within the author’s student accommodation on KTH Main Campus, in Stockholm (Sweden). As a matter of fact, this background study proved that recommended lighting levels (Illuminance, Contrast Ratio, CCT, CRI, M-EDI, and DER values) were not met, making the space unsuitable and unhealthy to both live and work in. Moreover, evaluating individual lighting preferences, it was demonstrated that flexibility, customizability, and adaptability to daylighting and tasks are fundamental requirements for working from home.Considering the temporary nature of students’ leases, the idea of developing an inexpensive and easily assemblable kit of smart products, aimed at improving lighting in dormitories, came quite naturally.To study the implementation of visual comfort and focus on tasks, literature review, market analysis, quantitative measurements, and hands-on experiments were carried on.Thus, with the gained knowledge and experience, the Home-Office Lighting Kit, an array of commercially available sockets, shades, and smart sources, supporting circadian rhythm and individual preferences, was proposed. Along with it, instructions on set-up and scenarios were provided.Although the overall conclusion was that the market needs products with a better balance between price, sturdiness, and reliability, the lighting conditions within the case study space were substantially improved, making other students interested in doing the same.Eventually, interesting cues for the sector’s development were proposed.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world faced lockdown and quarantine restrictions that encouraged or forced people to stay home. Along with the rest of the world, Brazil faced many difficulties during this period and it became one of the countries that lost more lives due to the Coronavirus infection worldwide. This study focuses on showing how people in Brazil coped with the challenges brought by the pandemic. It also focuses on showing if and how participants used media as a coping mechanism. The research was done through qualitative methods with semi-structured interviews with 25 adults who were living in Brazil during the pandemic and the lockdown restrictions. This study shows that participants did use media as a coping mechanism and even though they have encountered negative consequences, they have also faced and mentioned several positive effects during this period. Participants mentioned other coping mechanisms that made a difference for them during the darkest moments in the pandemic like, having interpersonal communication with family and friends, religion, gaming, and others.