Background: Innovation is usually connected with benefits inside companies, the most cited by researchers is the competitive advantage. However, the pursuit of innovation may lead to a harmful working environment that can increase stress levels among employees. An industry that is well known by its innovativeness is the tech industry, therefore an investigation on their working environment is important. Purpose: Our purpose is to analyse if tech companies are creating a stressful working environment for their own employees, what are the factors that creates this and what kind of techniques and methods are companies using to tackle the increase stress in their working environment. Understanding these topics, we provide a contribution to the theory and a suggestion for companies follow in order to reduce stress among employees without losing their pursuit for innovativeness. Method: We utilize secondary data collected from different type of sources. Also, we use real life examples of companies that are trying tackle stress in their working environment, providing insights on their actions and the outcome of them. Conclusion: The results show that technology companies have several factors that increase stress in their working environment, some of them associated with company characteristics, and other associated with the industry that the tech companies are competed in. Also, some of those stressors are not being tackled by methods or techniques that companies areiiusing in order to reduce the stress among employees. In order to improve their working environment, we suggest technology companies to follow our proposed strategy based in three pillars: flexibility, support and communication.

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Technological development has made working conditions more digital in today’s society, where the use of wireless aids has removed boundaries creating a more flexible working environment. Individuals now have the ability to decide for themselves about when, where and how ones work should be performed. The purpose of this study is to obtain an insight on how work without boundaries is experienced by individuals. Previous research links work with less boundaries to a more sustainable lifestyle where the individual has the ability to easier separate work from leisure time. This is however highly dependent on work characteristics which determines the possibility of flexible working conditions. This study has by the use of qualitative interviews aimed focus on real estate brokers, an occupation which has work characteristics that are considered to be less determined by boundaries in terms of working hours and income. This study highlights strategies on how real estate brokers can separate work life from private life, or choose to combine the two. Finally, the study has identified a set of characteristics which are important to the individual when it comes to managing work without boundaries. / Samhällets teknologiska utveckling har möjliggjort en ökad gränslöshet i arbetslivet och dagligen används portabla hjälpmedel som bidrar till arbetets flexibilitet. Den enskilda individen får i större utsträckning själv bestämma när, var och hur arbetet ska utföras. I denna studie undersöks hur individer kan uppleva och hantera gränslöshet med syftet att få en djupare förståelse för fenomenet gränslöst arbete. Enligt tidigare forskning är upplevelsen av gränslöst arbete kopplad till möjligheten för en fritid som inte inkluderar arbetet, detta för att möjliggöra återhämtning och för att bibehålla välmående i längden. Beroende på yrkets karaktär är detta dock inte alltid möjligt. Studien har genom kvalitativa intervjuer fokuserat på en grupp fastighetsmäklare vars yrke har en tydlig gränslöshet där allt från arbetstid till inkomst varierar. Studien synliggör även strategier som innefattar att individen antingen kan välja att kombinera arbetslivet med privatlivet eller att se dem som två separata sfärer utan koppling till varandra. Vidare har olika karaktärsdrag identifierats som tycks vara av stor vikt för både hanteringen och upplevelsen av det gränslösa arbetet.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka människors upplevelse av att arbeta med sin passion. Vi vill även utforska vad det är som motiverar dessa personer till att lägga ned den tid och kraft som krävs för kunna arbeta med passionen. Vi har genomfört nio kvalitativa intervjuer med personer som antingen helt, eller till viss del, försörjer sig på sin passion. Respondenternas yrken är: Cellist, Författare, Vinimportör, Projektledare/Idrottschef, Hudterapeut, Fotograf, Musikproducent, Glaskonstnär och Musikalartist. Vi har gjort urval efter vår teoretiska referensram för att kunna svara på våra frågeställningar. Urvalet är på så sätt ett målstyrt urval men vi har även till viss del gjort ett fåtal bekvämlighetsurval. Bekvämlighetsurvalen gjordes till följd av covid-19. Som grund till vår uppsats har vi valt teorier om passion, motivation, självledarskap, work-life balance samt roll och identitet. Dessa används för att analysera den insamlade empirin från intervjuerna. Resultatet visar att oberoende på vilket yrke respondenterna har känner de alla samma glädje och tacksamhet över att kunna ha sin passion som yrke. Deras motivation kommer inifrån då glädjen över själva utövandet och önskan om att hela tiden utvecklas är det som dagligen driver dem till att fortsätta. Studien visar även att det finns utmaningar med dessa yrken. En av dessa är att respondenterna kan känna en så stark dragningskraft till deras passion att de andra delarna i livet hamnar i konflikt med passionen.

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University-level students have made a sudden shift to working remotely to help society slow down the spread of COVID-19. The choice to work remotely was sudden and involuntarily. This study examines how students perceive the sudden and unexpected change to working remotely and how reduced physical interactions have affected work and work-life balance. A qualitative interview study, with an inductive approach, has been based on ten semi-structured interviews of full-time students from different study programs and study areas. The results of these interviews have been analyzed by comparing the students’ experiences to current literature, such as factors that affect distance work, social support and work-life balance. The results showed that students perceive the transition sudden but necessary. There were trends that implied that the switch had affected the students’ productivity and work-engagement, because of the lack of structure and social support. The results suggest that telework is better suited for some people more than others, due to personal skills and life situations. More preparation in terms av creating new structures for sudden switches to teleworking and improving ways of social interaction remotely, could be possible solutions to improving the transition of work arrangements.

Diploma thesis deals with application of age and gender management principles in selected companies of the Olomouc region. The aim of this diploma thesis is proposal to improve employment in clothing companies. Thesis is divided into two parts. First part includes literature research. Second part is formed by quantitative and qualitative research. In quantitative questionnaire section were applied statistical methods. In qualitative research were applied interviews with owners, executives and HR officers. Based on these analysis, were proposed recommendations for improvement of employment in clothing industry.

The master thesis deals with the matter of management diversity in chosen engineering companies. The goal of this paper is to formulate proposals and suggestions in the field of diversity management with emphasis on age and gender management in engineering companies in the South Moravian region. The first part of the thesis explains basic terms, arguments and process of diversity management implementation. The thesis consists of qualitative and quantitative research. Within the qualitative research eight semi-structured interviews with employees of middle and top management were taken. Quantitative research is based on questionnarie survey and statistical analysis of data that were gained in program Statistica 12. In the conclusion the author considers the results and based on them suggests recommendations including their benefits and economic appreciation.