A prática do home office durante a pandemia de Covid-19: estímulo à modulação de competências cognitivas nos trabalhadores

Abstract

This research was based of the hypothesis that the social isolation measures, proposed to prevent the dissemination of the Coronavirus, over the years of 2020 and 2021, led to a massive implementation of home-office policies, along with the development of exclusive labor practices to be intermediated through screens, and that may have favored the development of the workers cognitive skills. Assuming that as a starting point, the research object aimed in identifying if the modules of cognitive skills were stimulated in professionals that during the Covid-19 pandemic, were working in home-office regime, and that had to fulfil their duties only through screens intermediations. To review the routine of private companies' workers from Rio de Janeiro, shedding light on altercations experienced in their remote labor practices. Reflecting about the professional performance of these workers, the study questioned: is it possible to affirm the exception state caused by the pandemic, and the auspicious occasion for these workers to experience a compatibility even more intense with the technologies, and yet develop cognitive skills? The main study objective was to understand in what way the work paradigm change has influenced the skills related to senses, affections, perceptions, and the social capability of the individuals, beyond the total intermediations of screens. Among the secondary objectives there was the political-social contextualization, searching to comprehend how the neoliberal's domination practices helped to create a new toil format. It was also presented a survey about the labor model in question, and how it was perceived among the ones that had to adopt it as a daily practice during the pandemic period. For the investigation of these questions, it was used the bibliograph research methods. On the methodological procedures we have applied a Survey, for quantitative data collection, and semi-structured interviews with individuals to allow a qualitative approach over the workers perception about the impact of these changes in their routines. For theoretical background we used prepositions from Paul Preciado, Byung-Chul Han, Gilles Deleuze, Philippe Perrenoud, Fátima Regis, Alain Ehrenberg, Richard Sennet, and Jonathan Crary, among others. The collected information led to the conclusion that the work fully intermediated with screens during the Covid-19 pandemic, allowed the professionals that were immersed in the home-office labor model the frequent and varied dynamics, and extent couplings using the communication technologies. Regarding the leap of the usage of several interfaces, and software's, as well as the need of professional interaction to be intermediated through screens, along the visual abilities, tactile skills, sound, intellectual, social, emotional, and psychological for the workers, in addition to the ones related to attention and perception, associated to their individual knowledge, and individuate attitudes, were perfected. It was observed the development the six cognitive skills in professionals: Cybertextuals Skills, Logical Skills, Sensorial Skills, Creative Skills, Social Skills, and Psychological Skills.