Qualidade de vida no trabalho: Um estudo sobre os impactos da pandemia da covid-19 na perspectiva de estudantes que trabalharam na modalidade home-office

Abstract

In December 2019, the world was surprised by the discovery of the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19, which, until November 2022, resulted in more than 633 million cases worldwide. Due to the rapid spread, social isolation was defined as the most efficient strategy to combat the virus and, as a result, many companies began to adopt the home-office to circumvent the economic crisis. From this, analyzing the perception of students who worked in the home-office modality regarding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Quality of Working Life became the general objective of this research. The specific objectives are: to analyze the Quality of Working Life of students who worked from home-offices during the COVID-19 pandemic; identify the benefits perceived by these students with the home-office work model during the COVID-19 pandemic; and to identify how the COVID-19 pandemic presented itself to students who worked from home-offices during this period. The methodological procedures consisted of collecting and evaluating, through the application of the content analysis proposed by Bardin (1977) in semi-structured interviews, the perspective of 10 university students from the Federal University of Ceará who worked in the home-office CLT regime regarding the problem. The results of the study showed that quality of life deteriorated significantly during the pandemic due to increased workload and work activities, isolation from co-workers and the mixing of professional and personal life in the same environment, which caused episodes of anxiety, fear, stress and insecurity. Even with all the problems, several benefits of the home-office were perceived, such as saving time, not having to travel to work or college and the comfort of being at home.