Distansarbete hemifrån : En studie om distribuerat arbete hemifrån på ett IT-företag iÖstersund

Sammanfattning: For each passing year, distributed system development hasbecome more and more frequent and due to COVID-19, it nowrequires work to take place in an environment like our home.Previous research mentions communication and decision-makingrelated problems, and how they have been affected by a situationwhen work must be carried from home. Categories made fromthis are described as the social process, use ofinformationtechnologies, the boundry between home and workand information sharing from home which are now in our interestto research.The purpose of this study is therefore to identify critical factorsaffecting distributed system development projects when carriedout from home and to find if communication, decision-makingand collaboration have been affected. The study follows aqualitative research method by interviewing workers from alarger IT-company in Östersund, Sweden (all with differentpositions) where questions are based on previous studies.Results tell us that there’s quite a lot of critical factors affectingdistributed workers from home. Mostly, the negative factors treatthe social process while the positive is flexibility and focus towork assignments. Communication and decision-making shownext to no changes but are affected mostly by chat. Collaborationhas not been affected as much as one might think because ofprevious experience and the use of informationtechnologieswithin distributed teams are mostly optimized for a situation inwhich we now are present.