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I am planning a survey to try and determine the effectiveness and productivity of the tools currently being used while working remotely during covid quarantines.

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 Search terms and Restrictions: Remote Work
Number of returns: 5,161
Annotated Bibliography#1

Yarberry S, Sims C. The impact of COVID-19-prompted virtual/remote work environments on employees’ career development: Social learning theory, belongingness, and self-empowerment. Advances in Developing Human Resources. 2021;23(3):237-252. doi:10.1177/15234223211017850

This source asks questions from an HR perspective. They were seeking to find out how working from home during covid restrictions affected an employee’s career development. They found that using tools like remote mentoring became important to maintaining an employee’s growth.

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 Search terms and Restrictions: Remote Work
Number of returns: 5,161
Annotated Bibliography#2

          Sinclair MA, Stephens K, Whiteman K, Swanson-Biearman B, Clark J. Managing and motivating the remote employee using the Transformational Leadership Model. Nurse Leader. 2021;19(3):294-299. doi:10.1016/j.mnl.2021.01.001

This again is a source that seeks to get a better understanding of remote workers from an HR or managerial point of view. This study focused on remotely working nurses. The study is even more interesting since it started before the covid pandemic and concluded afterward. They seem to find positive results when using medical standards for management. However, some of this study was hard to follow due to using many unexplained acronyms.

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 Search terms and Restrictions: Remote Work
Number of returns: 5,161
Annotated Bibliography#3

Licite-Kurbe L, Leonovica R. Economic benefits of remote work from the employer perspective. 22nd International Scientific Conference “Economic Science for Rural Development 2021” New Dimensions in the Development of Society. 2021. doi:10.22616/esrd.2021.55.034

This source attempted to balance the pros and cons of remote work from the employer’s perspective. They used case study analysis, comparative analysis, economic analysis, and the scenario method.  It revealed that there are many opportunities for cost savings, but that comes at the cost of more difficult human resource management.

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 Search terms and Restrictions: work from home challenges
Number of returns: 160
Annotated Bibliography#4

Samuel S, Khan S. WORK FROM HOME: CHALLENGES DURING LOCKDOWN. Research Horizons: International Peer–Reviewed Journal. 2020;10:21-31.

This study conducted a study to find the tools that were most important to remote employees. They conducted a survey to find the challenges and successes of remote employees. This is very likely the best study I’ve found so far, in relation to my plans.

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 Search terms and Restrictions: remote work, 2020-2021, peer-reviewed journals only, full test only
Number of returns: 160
Annotated Bibliography#5

Derndorfer J, Disslbacher F, Lechinger V, Mader K, Six E. Home, sweet home? The impact of working from home on the division of unpaid work during the COVID-19 lockdown. PLoS ONE. 2021;16(11):1-26. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0259580

This study attempted to determine the changes in unpaid work during the covid restrictions and work from home. This included how things like childcare and housework

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Have I reached saturation?

I think that I have. I have reached the point where I tend to get the same search results over and over.