An in-Depth Study of the Psychological Impact of Disinformation and the COVID-19 Threat on Employees Working from Home

Abstract

Introduction: Many people are now required to work from home (WFH) due to the COVID-19, which has caused a substantial change in the nature of the workplace. Despite the fact that there has been a lot of research on the implementation of WFH, little is known about how people feel about this shift and how it affects their regular workdays.

Objectives: The goal of this study is to create and validate a framework that analyses how false facts and the COVID-19 threat affect WFH workers' levels of anxiety and SM weariness, which in turn affects how engaged they are at work. The study also looks at resilience's function as a coping strategy for decreasing the negative impacts of anxiety on employees

Methods: For ten days each, 72 WFH workers' diaries were gathered for this research. Participants were prompted to write down their impressions of misinformation, the COVID-19 danger, worry about social media(SM) exhaustion and involvement in work. The proposed model was tested using statistical methods.

Results: The study's findings provide substantial support for the proposed paradigm. It was found that among WFH staff members, disinformation and the COVID-19 threat both markedly raise anxiety and SM weariness. As a result of these increased anxiety levels and digital exhaustion, employee engagement is decreased. The also discovered that resilience functions as a means of managing, lessening the negative impacts of worry on employees.

Conclusions: This study offers important new understandings of how disinformation and the COVID-19 threat affect WFH staff responses at work. The findings underline the value of resiliency as means of coping and the negative effects of worry and internet fatigue on job satisfaction.