TY - GEN
T1 - Communicating with the masses from isolation
T2 - 55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2022
AU - Henderson, Keren
AU - Raheja, Raghav
AU - Crowston, Kevin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In response to the COVID-19 crisis, many local TV newsrooms decided to have employees work from home (WFH) or from the field rather than from the newsroom. From a review of research on telework and WFH, we identified possible impacts of WFH on worker effectiveness, conceptualized as including output, individual growth and well-being, and group viability. From interviews with news directors and journalists and observation of remote work, we found that WFH news workers could successfully create a newscast, albeit with some concerns about story quality. However, WFH did not seem to satisfy workers individually or as a group. Lifting restrictions on gatherings might mitigate some of the experienced problems, but we expect to see continued challenges to news worker informal learning.
AB - In response to the COVID-19 crisis, many local TV newsrooms decided to have employees work from home (WFH) or from the field rather than from the newsroom. From a review of research on telework and WFH, we identified possible impacts of WFH on worker effectiveness, conceptualized as including output, individual growth and well-being, and group viability. From interviews with news directors and journalists and observation of remote work, we found that WFH news workers could successfully create a newscast, albeit with some concerns about story quality. However, WFH did not seem to satisfy workers individually or as a group. Lifting restrictions on gatherings might mitigate some of the experienced problems, but we expect to see continued challenges to news worker informal learning.
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 7131
EP - 7140
BT - Proceedings of the 55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2022
A2 - Bui, Tung X.
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 3 January 2022 through 7 January 2022
ER -