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Record W4408903341 · doi:10.1108/ijotb-07-2024-0127

Exploring work-related cosmology events: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

2025· article· en· W4408903341 on OpenAlex
Linda Schweitzer, Seán Lyons, Chelsie J. Smith, Katarina Lauch

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Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPsychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
Canadian institutionsUniversity of GuelphCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)PandemicWork (physics)Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakCosmologyHistorySociologyGeographyVirologyAstronomyEngineeringMedicinePhysicsInfectious disease (medical specialty)

Abstract

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Purpose The present study examines personal accounts of disruptions and adaptations in the work lives of individuals who were required to work from home during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Our objective was to better understand how individuals respond to rapid, unanticipated changes in their work conditions. Design/methodology/approach Our qualitative study reflects in-depth interviews with 56 individuals to investigate how they were thinking, feeling and behaving in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings Our results suggest that individuals engaged in sensemaking to adapt to remote work and reacted in two ways: backward-focused and filled with nostalgia for a past that might never re-emerge, or forward-focused and filled with anticipation to build a new way of work. Practical implications Understanding employees’ responses to a major disruption provides guidance for how to support and lead them back to stability. Building flexibility into organizational structures, as well as establishing more robust and personalized support mechanisms, may enable more adaptive and resilient coping in the future. Originality/value We contend that the rapid shift to working from home represents a pervasive cosmology event – an abrupt crisis that challenges our assumptions about what is normal. Studying the responses to such an event provides insight into how people make sense of disruptions to their working lives, determine how to react and act to re-establish order.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.093
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.107
GPT teacher head0.394
Teacher spread0.287 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it