Analyzing tweets on New norm: Work from home during COVID-19 outbreak

Swapna GOTTIPATI, Singapore Management University
Kyong Jin SHIM, Singapore Management University
Hui Hian TEO, Singapore Management University
Karthik NITYANAND, Singapore Management University
Shreyansh SHIVAM, Singapore Management University

Abstract

See https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6027. The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a large-scale work-from-home trend globally in recent months. In this paper, we study the phenomenon of “work-from-home” (WFH) by performing social listening. We propose an analytics pipeline designed to crawl social media data and perform text mining analyzes on textual data from tweets scrapped based on hashtags related to WFH in COVID-19 situation. We apply text mining and NLP techniques to analyze the tweets for extracting the WFH themes and sentiments (positive and negative). Our Twitter theme analysis adds further value by summarizing the common key topics, allowing employers to gain more insights on areas of employee concerns due to pandemic.