Motivação e o home office

Abstract

The advent of the Covid-19 pandemic has intensified the use of remote work. With the scenario of social isolation, this modality was presented as a necessity for organizations that sought to maintain the functioning of their activities. From this context, the objective of this study is to understand how motivation is managed in organizations, from the perspective of employees who use this type of work. A semi-structured interview script was developed, containing the main questions about motivational factors and socialization practices in the face of literature, applied to eleven professionals from different functions and companies in the city of Uberlandia-Minas Gerais. The results showed that the workers' motivation was driven by the lack of need to travel to the companies' offices, but, at the same time, it had an impact on individualism and the lack of integration with other employees. The comparison between the period before and after the adoption of the home office indicated that factors considered relevant to the agents' motivation, such as integration and teamwork, were reduced, directly impacting the socialization processes among professionals.