Tele-working and its effect on human resource efficiency

One of the phenomena in information era is Tele-working project the government announced the regulation to organizations and bureaus in few last years. Tele-working includes some advantages and disadvantages; economization as its advantages and no specific border between working and personal life leads to emergence of some family problems as its disadvantages. Human resource is the basic part of any organization and in fact, efficiency of human resource directly effect on efficiency and effectiveness of any organization. This means, tele-working surely effects on efficiency and effectiveness of human resource and organization indeed. However, it should be considered that a tele-worker has to have skills such as discipline, working conscience, computer knowledge and English language ability in order to positively effect on efficiency otherwise, the negative effect not only does not increase efficiency but also it decreases it. In the present article, tele-working (a method in which a job done in a place other that than office), tele-workers' characteristics, jobs appropriate for teleworking (jobs without any client), advantage and disadvantages of tele-working defined and its effects on efficiency of human resource studied finally. If the conditions and infrastructures provided, tele-working surely effects on increase in efficiency but the author assumes the intelligent transfer more efficient regarding the goals government follows from presentation of this project

Impact of Virtual-based Resilience Training on Perceived Stress in Family Caregivers of COVID-19 Patients

Introduction: Stress is a psychological trauma that the family caregivers of COVID-19 patients may experience that can impair the caregivers’ positive adaptation to stressful experiences, i.e., their resilience, leading to a decline in the quality of patient care. This study aimed to determine the effect of virtual-based resilience training on perceived stress levels among family caregivers of COVID-19 patients. Materials and Methods: Twenty family caregivers of COVID-19 patients discharged on the same day from 22nd-Bahman Hospital of Khaf were recruited by census and assigned randomly to experimental or control groups in a quasi-experimental study. Before and after the intervention, data on the caregivers’ demographic characteristics, resilience, and perceived stress were collected using electronic questionnaires. One month of training was given to the experimental group via the WhatsApp application. Data were analyzed by SPSS-22 using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Levine’s, and analysis of covariance tests. The level of significance was set to α = 0.05. Results: In this study, 20 family caregivers of COVID-19 patients were allocated to experimental (4 men and 6 women) and control (3 men and 7 women) groups. Post-test scores for perceived stress (F = 290.34, P <0.001) and resilience (F = 799.794, P <0.001) revealed a significant difference between the experimental and control groups. Conclusion: The results demonstrated that virtual-based resilience training is an effective method for minimizing perceived stress and enhancing the resilience of COVID-19 patients’ family caregivers