Teletrabajo en docentes universitarios del Ecuador, un estudio con referencia a la pandemia del 2020

Abstract

The pandemic of Covid-19 occurred at the beginning of 2020 in Ecuador generated that the modalities of work change in an abrupt way especially in the area of university teaching because they were starting the academic period and the chairs could not stop, the objective of this research was to identify the consequences of telework in the occupational health of university teachers in Ecuador in the context of the pandemic of 2020; at the same time was reflected the problem with respect to the lack of knowledge of the modality especially in relation to the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), the lack of facilities and adequate implementation for the development of the modality generating physical consequences (ergonomic problems, visual, musculoskeletal disorders) and psychosocial consequences (sleep problems, work stress and social isolation). This systematization is used under a qualitative-interpretative approach with a non-experimental design of exploratory character, simultaneously for the organization of the information was used the PRISMA methodology, which let us evidence the similarity of our research topic with the themes, problems, methodologies and possible solutions that scientific articles, theses and bibliographies raised; finally as a product of this systematization research could obtain guidelines and recommendations to prevent the physical, ergonomic and psychosocial occupational hazards of teleworkers in university context.