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The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Wellbeing is a comprehensive and cutting-edge work providing the latest insights into a range of perspectives on organizational wellbeing, as well as highlighting global wellbeing issues and exploring new contexts. Topics covered include: digital working and social media, LGBTQIA+ identifications and work, suicide at work, refugee workers, and mental health. A multi- and inter-disciplinary work, this handbook embraces ideas and empirical work from a range of fields including psychology, business and management, economics, and science. This handbook draws together current knowledge whilst also outlining emerging issues and directions, making this an invaluable resource for students and researchers spanning a wide array of disciplines. Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives; Part 2: International Issues and Contexts; Part 3: Developing Organizational Wellbeing; and Part 4: Emerging Issues and Directions.
Virtual Work, Technology and Wellbeing
Virtual Work, Technology and Wellbeing
Introduction
Information technology (IT) has enabled work to be conducted beyond the physical confines of the physical office and beyond the temporal confines of the nine-to-five office hours. Virtual work refers to work that, through the use of IT, enables employees to work and interact across geographical and temporal boundaries (Raghuram et al., 2019). In this chapter, we define virtual work as the commonly understood work arrangements that are not accomplished in the physical office (e.g., remote work, telecommuting) and that are made possible through a range of IT such as computers, smartphones, email, video-conferencing tools and intranets. While virtual work has been around ...
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