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Copyright Fundação Getulio Vargas, EBAPE - Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas Oct-Dec 2015

Abstract

This article aims to examine and analyze how work changes, derived from intensive use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), influence the temporal and spatial experience of subjects on everyday bank work activities. The theoretical framework addresses changes in spatiality and temporality, mainly those caused by intensive use of technologies in work processes, and their social consequences. A case study in a Brazilian bank was conducted and 29 bank workers, at various ages, positions, and length of service in the company were interviewed. The study prioritized a qualitative approach in data processing and content analysis of transcribed interviews, prioritizing an understanding of the implicit content in subjects' speech. The banking sector showed up as an adequate study field to analyze this theme, due to the constant and profound changes it has faced for decades, both regarding its nature and work processes. The need to perform a job in a fast way, associated with the large volume of activities and the reduced number of bank workers, consists in an element that boosts stress and illness among the study participants.

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Title
As Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação e sua Influência na Vivência Espaço-Temporal de Trabalhadores Bancários/Information and Communication Technologies and their Influence on the Temporal and Spatial Experience of Bank Workers
Author
Bessi, Vânia Gisele; Schreiber, Dusan; Puffal, Daniel Pedro; Tondolo, Vilmar Antonio Gonçalves
Pages
776-794
Publication year
2015
Publication date
Oct-Dec 2015
Publisher
Fundação Getulio Vargas, EBAPE - Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas
e-ISSN
16793951
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Portuguese
ProQuest document ID
1728665140
Copyright
Copyright Fundação Getulio Vargas, EBAPE - Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas Oct-Dec 2015