Bibliometric and systemic analysis of the relationship between quality of work life and productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic brought with it changes in the way of working and the well-being of workers.

Objective: To identify research trends on work life quality and its impact on productivity in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Method: The Proknow-C constructivist methodology was used, with which a bibliographic portfolio of 49 articles obtained from the Web of Science was prepared, resulting from four stages of search between 2012 and 2022; a bibliometric analysis was performed on that database and bibliometric networks were created with the software VOSviewer; the systemic analysis of the articles was carried out, thus showing theories, definitions and indicators; and areas of opportunity of research were identified.

Results: The most important high-impact specialized journals and authors, articles considered central, most used keywords such as job satisfaction, quality of work life and COVID-19, as well as the most representative countries such as European and Asian, are presented.

Conclusion: It was found that the health sector is one of the most studied, allowing researchers from other sectors the opportunity to delve into the issue of the affectations of the quality of work life reflected in productivity and common variables were synthesized such as job satisfaction, well-being, motivation and security, among others.