Online Teaching in the Times of COVID-19 and the Change in Work Time Distribution of Faculty Members

The COVID-19 pandemic and the emergency remote teaching it caused disrupted the academic life and caused the change of priorities for everyday faculty activities. Several prior reports indicate an increase of the overall work effort, and in particular the time spent on teaching activities at the expense of research activities. In this paper, we investigate this further, exploring how the time spent on respective faculty activity kinds actually changed, checking to what extent the change was general, and identifying factors which could explain any differences found among academics. The analysis is performed on data obtained in a survey answered by 172 respondents from 13 countries. While many findings from earlier reports are confirmed, several novel interesting observations are made. Two relevant directions for IS research are indicated.