Does Telework Stress Employees Out? A Study on Working at Home and Subjective Well-Being for Wage/Salary Workers

Song, Younghwan; Gao, Jia

doi:10.1007/s10902-019-00196-6

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“…However, Wheatley (2017) and Reuschke (2019) find such a positive association between remote work and job satisfaction for employees only and Binder (2016) found a large effect for remote work on job satisfaction only among men but not for women. In contrast, Song and Gao (2019) find that remote work is associated with less happiness and more stress. Moreover, 'parents, especially fathers, report a lower level of subjective wellbeing when working at home […].…”

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The COVID-19 pandemic and subjective well-being: longitudinal evidence on satisfaction with work and family

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This paper provides a timely evaluation of whether the main COVID-19 lockdown policiesremote work, short-time work and closure of schools and childcarehave an immediate effect on the German population in terms of changes in satisfaction with work and family life. Relying on individual level panel data collected before and during the lockdown, we examine (1) how family satisfaction and work satisfaction of individuals have changed over the lockdown period, and (2) how lockdown-driven changes in the labour market situation (i.e. working remotely and being sent on short-time work) have affected satisfactions. We apply first-difference regressions for mothers, fathers, and persons without children. Our results show a general decrease in family satisfaction. We also find an overall decline in work satisfaction which is most pronounced for mothers and those without children who have to switch to short-time work. In contrast, fathers' well-being is less affected negatively and their family satisfaction even increased after changing to short-time work. We conclude that while the lockdown circumstances generally have a negative effect on the satisfaction with work and family of individuals in Germany, effects differ between childless persons, mothers, and fathers with the latter being least negatively affected.

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“…Non-parents' subjective well-being does not vary much by where they work on weekdays.' (Song and Gao 2019). To sum up, the relationship between remote work and job satisfaction remains unclear as previous results are contractionary.…”

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The COVID-19 pandemic and subjective well-being: longitudinal evidence on satisfaction with work and family

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“…For example, the percentage of telecommuting companies surged from 24.0% in March to 62.7% in April 2020. 23 While telecommuting can increase stress, 24 , 25 reducing commute times can improve the subjective well-being. 26 , 27 It requires further investigations on the relationship between various style changes and stress and subjective well-being during the pandemic in Japan.…”

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Excess Mortality From Suicide During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic Period in Japan: A Time-Series Modeling Before the Pandemic

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Fukui

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et al. 2021

Journal of Epidemiology

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Background Suicide amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is an important issue. In Japan, the number of suicides in April 2020 decreased by nearly 20% from that in 2019. To assess the impact of an infectious disease pandemic, excess mortality is often discussed. Our main purpose was evaluating excess mortality from suicide in Japan during the early pandemic period. Methods We used data on suicides collected by the National Police Agency of Japan until June 2020. We estimated excess mortality during the early pandemic period (March–June 2020) using a time-series model of the number of suicides before the pandemic. A quasi-Poisson model was employed for the estimation. We evaluated excess mortalities by the categories of age and sex, and by prefecture. Results No significant excess mortality was observed throughout the early pandemic; instead, a downward trend in the number of suicides for both sexes was noted. For males, negative values of excess mortalities below the lower bound of the 95% prediction interval were observed in April and May. All numbers of females during the period were included in the interval, and the excess mortalities in June were positive and higher than those in April and May. In Tokyo, the number of suicides was below the lower bound throughout the period. Conclusion Our results suggest that various changes, such as communication, and social conditions amid the early COVID-19 pandemic induced a decrease in suicides in Japan. However, continuous monitoring is needed to evaluate the long-term effects of the pandemic on suicides.

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“…Even if workers, especially women with young children, value fl exible work arrangements (Mas and Pallais, 2017;Angelici and Profeta, 2020), WFH may generate new sources of confl ict and stress at home (Song and Gao, 2019). Arntz et al (2019) fi nd that, in Germany, employees without children under the age of 16 who start WFH do an extra hour per week of unpaid overtime and still report higher job satisfaction.…”

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Working from Home and COVID-19: The Chances and Risks for Gender Gaps

2020

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As the COVID-19 pandemic causes a record number of people to work from home, this disruptive event will likely have a long-lasting impact on work arrangements. Given existing research on the effects of working from home on hours worked and wages, an increased availability of working from home may provide a chance for women to catch up with their male counterparts. Yet, the need to simultaneously care for children during the COVID-19 lockdown may also revive traditional gender roles, potentially counteracting such gains. We discuss the likely effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender gaps in the labour market and at home in light of recent empirical findings and novel statistics on the heterogeneous structure of work arrangements among couples. We construct a novel teleworkability index that differentiates between fully teleworkable, partly teleworkable and on-site jobs and find that in about a third of households the COVID-19 shock is likely to induce shifts in the intra-household allocation of tasks from mothers to fathers.

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Does Telework Stress Employees Out? A Study on Working at Home and Subjective Well-Being for Wage/Salary Workers

Cited by 249 publications

References 49 publications

The COVID-19 pandemic and subjective well-being: longitudinal evidence on satisfaction with work and family

The COVID-19 pandemic and subjective well-being: longitudinal evidence on satisfaction with work and family

Excess Mortality From Suicide During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic Period in Japan: A Time-Series Modeling Before the Pandemic

Working from Home and COVID-19: The Chances and Risks for Gender Gaps

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