Många organisationer har infört distansarbete för att minska smittspridningen under Covid-19 pandemin. I samband med påtvingat distansarbete har organisationer snabbt fått öka deras kunskap gällande ledarskap, effektiva och hälsosamma virtuella teamsamt digitala hjälpmedel. Syftet med föreliggande studie var att undersöka hur ledare har upplevt att arbetet fungerat med den psykosociala arbetsmiljön under det påtvingade distansarbetet under Covid-19. Sju semistrukturerade intervjuer utfördes med ledare från offentlig förvaltning och privat sektor. Materialet analyserades med en induktiv tematisk analys, de teman som framkom var: relation till medarbetarna, kommunikation och stöd, medarbetarnas hälsa samt framtida arbetssituation. Föreliggande studie visade att ledarnas upplevelse av den psykosociala arbetsmiljön för medarbetarna inte har försämrats under det påtvingade distansarbetet. Dock var resultatet motsägelsefullt då ledarna även upplevt en viss problematik med social kontakt och att det var svårt att fånga upp signaler när det gäller ohälsa bland medarbetarna på distans. Resultatet diskuteras i relation till tidigare forskning inom psykosocial arbetsmiljö under distansarbete.

Many organizations have introduced teleworking to reduce the spread of infection during the Covid-19 pandemic. Due to forced teleworking, organizations rapidly needed to increase their knowledge regarding leadership, effective and healthy virtual teams,and digital aids. The purpose of the present study was to investigate leaders' experience of the work with the psychosocial work environment during the forced distance-work during Covid-19. Seven semi-structured interviews were conducted with leaders from public administration and the private sector. The material was analyzed with an inductive thematic analysis, the themes that emerged were relationship to the employees, communication and support, the employees' health, and future work situation. The present study showed that managers' experience of the psychosocial work environment for employees has not deteriorated during the forced distance work. However, the result is contradictory as the leaders also experienced some problems with social contact and that it was difficult to pick up signals when it comes to ill health among employees at a distance. The results are discussed in relation to previous research regarding psychosocial work environment during teleworking.