Beck and his graduate student, Arden Flow, collected data from a sample of 94 full-time working adults who either had or had not contracted COVID-19 at least one month prior to the study. Their study shows individuals who had contracted COVID-19 reported significantly more cognitive failures at work. “Relative to the group who had never had COVID-19, the group who had contracted COVID-19 reported more cognitive failures at work, which are defined as problems with memory, attention, and action,” Beck said.
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The study, The effects of contracting Covid-19 on cognitive failures at work: implications for task performance and turnover intentions, authored by Beck and Flow, was recently published in the journal Scientific Reports.