This paper examines the effects of working from home on mental health, using unique real time survey data from South Korea collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that working from home negatively affects the mental health of workers in the first half of 2020. Furthermore, we find...

Worldwide the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted organizations. One major effect was a massive shift to working from home (WFH). Government-mandated constraints and lockdowns forced many organizations to adopt working remotely within a short time frame. We investigate if, how and when management...

During the recent COVID-19 pandemic, traditional (offline) chess tournaments were prohibited and instead held online. We exploit this as a unique setting to assess the impact of moving offline tasks online on the cognitive performance of individuals. We use the Artificial Intelligence embodied...

We use the universe of U.S. job postings to construct a firm-level index that assesses each company's work from home (WFH) suitability, and study its impact on firms' resilience during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we find strong evidence that,...

During the recent COVID-19 pandemic, traditional (offline) chess tournaments were prohibited and instead held online. We exploit this as a unique setting to assess the impact of moving offline tasks online on the cognitive performance of individuals. We use the Artificial Intelligence embodied...

Mit der Einfuehrung von Ganzheitlichen Produktionssystemen wird in der deutschen Industrie eine neue Entwicklungsstufe betrieblicher Rationalisierung verbunden: Es sollen bislang wenig verbundene Rationalisierungsmassnahmen ‚ganzheitlich‘ zusammengefuehrt werden. Der reale Stellenwert...

A recent survey showed that 33% of businesses grant their employees access to all company data, with at least another 35% granting accesses to more data than is needed. Such overly permissive data access strategy allows the firms to run more efficiently, but at the same time, such strategies...

In modern conditions, quality management is already becoming a managerial function like any other function in the organization, as employees from all sectors and all departments should participate in it.The involvement of all employees in the organization contributes to total quality management....

Complete quality management as a modern concept is starting to be implemented in organizations in the Republic of North Macedonia. Its implementation is based on the perceptions of the positive effects it offers. This concept enables visible changes in organizations, while offering several...