WORKPLACE ISOLATION: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND SYNTHESIS
Shikha Sahai, Mariam Anil Ciby, Ahmad Taha Kahwaji
Abstract
With the rising popularity of telecommuting and other new forms of work arrangements, workplace isolation has gained relevance in recent times. Nevertheless, workplace isolation can also occur amongst employees in traditional work settings too. Empirical evidences suggest that workplace isolation has a relationship with employee attitude, behavior, performance and well-being. Despite the prevalence and importance of workplace isolation, the literature on the concept, measurement, factors that influence it and how it influences outcome variables is dispersed. This article offers a systematic review of literature on workplace isolation, collating and synthesizing existing literature and also setting agenda for future research. In doing so we hope that it would attract interest of other scholars and eventually expand this body of research.