Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: People Will Be People
The COVID-19 virus has led to lots of changes in how we work. If we are not essential workers who need to continue to work at company offices, we’ve become experts (if we weren’t already) at working from home, overcoming tech challenges and many others. The full ramifications of the virus for how we live and work will take some time to reveal themselves, and it is likely that short-term and long-term effects may not align neatly as the pandemic subsides. In the future, as in the past, people will have the same three basic motivations guiding their lives, at work and away from work, however. Fundamental aspects of human nature are consistent, from one millennium of our history as a species to the next. Self-Determination Theory (SDT), as reported on by Deci, Olafsen and Ryan in 2017, indicates that humans have a deep-seated psychological need for competence, autonomy, and …
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