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How Covid-19 impacts the workplace of knowledge workers in a pandemic and post pandemic world
(2021)
The following master thesis covers the topic workplace. The focus lies on the corona pandemic and how the pandemic has affected and will continue to affect the workplaces of knowledge workers. Therefore, the workplace as a research area has been described holistically, followed by the presentation of gathered secondary data and the conducted in depth interviews by the author. The presented secondary data and primary data are agreeing in the workplace how people know it will be changed after the pandemic. The most likely outcome is the hybrid workplace concept which mixes the home office, the office and alternatively third places. For these changes the companies have to be equipped and prepared. The meaning of the office will increase and has to be redesigned in order to meet the needs of the knowledge workers which are coming back to the office eventually.
In this thesis, we implement, correct, and modify the compartmental model described in “Transmission Dynamics of Large Coronavirus Disease Outbreak in Homeless Shelter, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2020”. Our objective is to engage in reading and understanding scientific literature, reproduce the results, and modify or generalize an existing mathematical model. We provide an overview of epidemiological models, focusing on simple compartmental SEIR models. We correct inaccuracies and misprints in the original implementation and use the limited-memory Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno algorithm to fit the model’s parameters. Furthermore, we modify the model by introducing an additional compartment. The resulting model has a more intuitive interpretation and relies on fewer assumptions. We also perform the fitting process for this alternative model. Finally, we demonstrate the advantages of our modified implementations and discuss other possible approaches.