Remote Working and Mental Health During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Adopting telework: The causal impact of working from home on subjective well‐being

“…Cognitively, WFH is thus generally seen as a positive job amenity, an element of job flexibility. But on the other hand, most longitudinal studies, both before and during Covid, find a negative effect of full‐time WFH on the mental health of workers (Bertoni et al., 2021; Reuschke & Felstead, 2020; Li & Wang, 2022; Lyttelton et al., 2022; Song & Gao, 2020; Xiao et al., 2021). The ongoing study by Barrero et al.…”

“…Our article complements this report, whose ambition is to describe more broadly the extent, composition and impact of telework on several outcomes, but not life satisfaction, and who only uses three early Covid waves of the survey. Another recent study is that of Bertoni et al (2021), who use longitudinal data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) database of senior Europeans and estimate the causal effect of switching to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health. The article uncovers negative effects of telework for respondents with children at home, but a positive effect for men and for respondents with no coresiding minor children.…”

“…Another recent study is that of Bertoni et al. (2021), who use longitudinal data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) database of senior Europeans and estimate the causal effect of switching to remote work during the COVID‐19 pandemic on mental health. The article uncovers negative effects of telework for respondents with children at home, but a positive effect for men and for respondents with no co‐residing minor children.…”

The Role of Employment Protection Legislation Regimes in Shaping the Impact of Job Disruption on Older Workers’ Mental Health in Times of COVID-19

“…This study makes use of a representative sample of individuals drawn from the 8 th wave of the (see also Bertoni et al, 2021). A sub-sample of the 8 th wave SHARE panel respondents was then interviewed from June to September 2020, via a Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI), partly to collect a set of basic information as in the regular SHARE questionnaire and partly to elicit information on life circumstances in the presence of The data collected with the latter questionnaire provide a detailed picture of how individuals were coping with the health-related and socio-economic impact of This study focused on older workers aged between 50 and over, according to the countryspecific statutory retirement eligibility ages, drawn from the Mutual Information System on Social Protection (MISSOC) tables.…”

“…Decree of March 22, 2020 and then adopted by the majority of European countries (see also Bertoni et al, 2021;Fana et al, 2020). Job --digit Nomenclature of Economic Activities (NACE): workers employed in agriculture, hunting, mining, quarrying, utilities, transport and storage, public administration, education and health sectors were considered as restaurants, financial intermediation, real estate, community workers sectors were considered as the 2-digits NACE code was used, which is available in the 8 th wave of SHARE.…”