Home sweet home: Working from home and employee performance during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK

Deole, Sumit S.; Deter, Max; Huang, Yue

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102295

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“…A limited number of studies (e.g. Deole, Deter and Huang, 2023; Kitagawa et al. , 2021) have emerged that examine homeworking and performance during the COVID‐19 pandemic, but their results have been inconsistent.…”

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Health Risks Related to COVID‐19, Psychological Distress and Perceived Productivity

Park

Koch

2023

British J of Management

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The COVID‐19 pandemic has affected the lives of billions around the globe. Yet, our understanding of its impact on psychological distress and work productivity remains limited. Using data from two waves of the Understanding Society COVID‐19 study, a representative British survey of reactions to the COVID‐19 pandemic, comprising 5829 individuals, we find that perceived health risks related to COVID‐19 affect the productivity of working individuals negatively via increased psychological distress. Results also show that the extent of homeworking amplifies the negative relationship between psychological distress and productivity. Additionally, we find that the negative relationship between psychological distress and productivity is stronger for self‐employed individuals compared to those who are in paid employment. Psychological distress, self‐employment status and gender jointly interact in reducing productivity, such that self‐employed women experience the strongest decline in productivity. We discuss the implications of our findings in light of supporting individuals to reduce psychological distress and maintain their productivity following the COVID‐19 pandemic.

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Health Risks Related to COVID‐19, Psychological Distress and Perceived Productivity

Park

Koch

2023

British J of Management

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“…In the same analysis, 15% of employees working exclusively from home reported that they feel isolated during their work activity (Eurofound, 2020). The issue of higher work demand and isolation was observed during the pandemic in several studies (Deole et al, 2021; Wang et al, 2019). Eurofound (2020) data show that 35% of employees working from home during the pandemic worked more than 41 h per week, compared to 19% of employees working from the employer’s premises only.…”

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Negotiation of psycho-social risks of remote working. An enterprise-level comparison in Italy and France

Seghezzi

2022

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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The article focuses on how the actors of industrial relations acted at firmlevel in multi-national company, Danone, in two different institutional contexts (Italy and France), in order to set rules and procedures aimed to mitigate the negative psycho-social consequences of remote working adopted during Covid-19 pandemic. In particular, it examines what was the role of firm-level industrial relations in setting specific oriented actions and what were the relations between these, global policies of the company and national level policies about health and safety and in general the institutional context. It emerges the importance of informality of relations between actors in helping to face an emergency together with the role of global policies of the company that seems to overcomes the different national institutional contexts.

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have forced many employees to work from home. Lessons learned from this unparalleled global workplace experiment remain scarce, especially in view of possible future virus outbreaks [ 25 ]. Knowledge of workers’ spatially-related experiences and health is particularly scarce.…”

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Workplace impact on employees: A Lifelines Corona Research Initiative on the return to work

Mobach

2023

PLoS ONE

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A large proportion of the global workforce migrated home during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. It remains unclear what the exact differences between home workers and non-home workers were, especially during the pandemic when a return to work was imminent. How were building, workplace, and related facilities associated with workers’ perceptions and health? What are the lessons to be learned? Lifelines Corona Research Initiative was used to compare employees’ workplaces and related concerns, facilities, work quality, and health in a complete case analysis (N = 12,776) when return to work was imminent. Mann-Whitney U, logistic regression, and Wilcoxon matched-pairs were used for analyses. Notwithstanding small differences, the results show that home workers had less favourable scores for concerns about and facilities of on-site buildings and workplaces upon return to work, but better scores for work quality and health than non-home workers. However, additional analyses also suggest that building, workplace, and related facilities may have had the capacity to positively influence employees’ affective responses and work quality, but not always their health.

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Home sweet home: Working from home and employee performance during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK

Cited by 46 publications

References 54 publications

Health Risks Related to COVID‐19, Psychological Distress and Perceived Productivity

Health Risks Related to COVID‐19, Psychological Distress and Perceived Productivity

Negotiation of psycho-social risks of remote working. An enterprise-level comparison in Italy and France

Workplace impact on employees: A Lifelines Corona Research Initiative on the return to work

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