Kathy Lund Dean (Business and Economics) recently co-authored an article in the Journal of Management Inquiry examining the sustained and increasingly intense managerial resistance to remote work. Because remote employee productivity and quality of life gains have been measured across industries, Lund Dean and her co-author were curious about the growing return-to-office mandates even among organizations with a significant proportion of remote-possible work, creating employee anger and job turnover. Using a phenomenological lens, the authors describe the very different skill set that remote work managers must practice, rejecting the notion that the only difference between on-site and remote work is location.
Faculty Spotlight: Kathy Lund Dean
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