Concurrents Environmental Psychology: What Have We Learned?
Since COVID-19 vaccines have started to be injected, conversations seem to have turned to post-pandemic life. People have the same sorts of psychological firepower now that they did in 2019, so it’s hard to anticipate how future workplaces can or should be different from those that employees left, except in very obvious ways related to disease transmission. We’re still all driven by a desire to do our jobs well, have a reasonable level of control over our lives, and interact with other people when we choose to do so, for example, just as self-determination theory makes clear. People’s desire to do their jobs well has lead them to make all sorts of modifications to their homes/home offices, while they’ve been compelled to work only there. Some workers have tried to eliminate distractions, incorporate mentally refreshing experiences, and take positive aesthetics steps in their home workplaces, for example. Predictably, some of …
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