Worker well-being before and during the COVID-19 restrictions: A longitudinal study in the UK

Pelly, Diane; Daly, Michael; Delaney, Liam; Doyle, Orla

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“…At the same time, some have heralded the COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst for better work-life balance, particularly for individuals with good job security and flexible employment and family responsibilities. In addition to these opposing anecdotal discussions, empirical work has been similarly mixed, with some research observing well-being decrements among individuals 2,3 and others reporting well-being stability or improvements over time or as a function of other factors 4,5,6 . Although some studies (reviewed more later) have involved data collected over time, much of this research has been crosssectional in nature 7,8 , only producing "snapshots" of worker well-being at isolated time points.…”

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confidence: 99%

Short-Term Effects of Short-Term Work: Dynamics in Fatigue across Two National Lockdowns

Rauvola¹,

Rudolph²,

Zacher³

2022

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Objective: Anecdotal evidence suggests work fatigue has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, and work interventions to offset stresses have been effective. Our study sought to test these propositions, documenting and describing the complexity of worker well-being around two lockdown periods. Methods: Using 17 waves of data from a longitudinal study in Germany (December 2019 to June 2021, n = 1,053 employees), we model discontinuous changes in work fatigue and how participation in a government-sponsored short-term work program (Kurzarbeit) affected change trajectories. Results: The COVID-19 pandemic has not invariably resulted in work fatigue, and individuals with Kurzarbeit at the first lockdown (but not the second) showed significantly larger decreases in each form of fatigue at this transition. Conclusions: Future policy interventions will require more contextual nuance to effectively support worker well-being during public health crises.

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Short-Term Effects of Short-Term Work: Dynamics in Fatigue across Two National Lockdowns

Rauvola¹,

Rudolph²,

Zacher³

2022

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“…Those individuals experienced fewer negative emotions and felt more connected to their organization. However, their home-life satisfaction and job performance according to their own evaluations decreased (Pelly, Daly, & Delaney, 2021).…”

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Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Happiness and Socioeconomic Conditions: Differences Across Countries and Individuals' Personality Traits

Kamilçelebi¹

2022

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Individuals' reactions to the impacts of Covid-19 on their lives and their happiness may be different. The differences in personality traits of those individuals can be affected by uncertainty, restrictions, quarantine, measures, etc. within the pandemic environment. We investigate the extent to which they tend to behave in situations and to what extent their happiness differs. We estimate that the pandemic affects people's happiness and that such situations may differ on the personality traits of people. To this end, we explain both how happiness changes during the pandemic and how individuals with certain personality traits are affected by the pandemic both socioeconomically and in terms of happiness, along with certain studies conducted so far and some of the data obtained from the World Database of Happiness. Unhappiness has increased in many countries due to the conditions brought by the pandemic, and this is often related to economic policies. Changes in the way individuals do business during the pandemic process, closing their workplaces due to restrictions, being unemployed, or increasing their workload are the most important factors that affect happiness. In general, those who were most negatively affected by the pandemic are women, the unemployed, and the poor, whom we can specify as the disadvantaged group even before the pandemic. With this study, we advise policymakers to consider happiness and personality traits when determining pandemic policy.

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“…The fall in subjective well-being due to the context has been abundantly documented (e.g. Anaya et al, 2021;Banks & Xu, 2020;Brodeur et al, 2021;Pelly et al, 2021;Pierce et al, 2020;Schmidtke et al, 2021;Sibley et al, 2020), but while in the early days of the lockdown, increased symptoms of depression and anxiety were often attributed to telecommuting, with the easing of restrictions, many surveys revealed that the vast majority of workers do not want to return to the office 5 days a week. Aksoy et al (2022), for instance, ran a global survey of working arrangement in 27 countries and found that both employers and employees expect to see WFH continue after the pandemic.…”

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

Gueguen

Senik

2023

Brit J Industrial Rel

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We study the impact of work from home (WFH) on subjective well‐being during the Covid period, where self‐selection of individuals into telework is ruled out, at least part of the time, by stay‐at‐home orders. We use a difference‐in‐differences approach with individual fixed effects and identify the specific impact of switching to telecommuting, separately from any other confounding factor. In particular, our identification strategy avoids the influence of interpersonal heterogeneity by exploiting the multiple entries into WFH, by the same individuals, at different times. On average over the period, switching to WFH, especially full‐time, worsens mental health. We also find a positive but imprecisely measured impact of part‐time WFH on life satisfaction. However, this hides a dynamic evolution, whereby the initial deterioration gives place to an adaptation process after a couple of months. We also uncover a particularly pronounced fall in subjective well‐being of women with children, especially in the first months; this could be associated with home‐schooling.

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Worker well-being before and during the COVID-19 restrictions: A longitudinal study in the UK

Cited by 9 publications

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Short-Term Effects of Short-Term Work: Dynamics in Fatigue across Two National Lockdowns

Short-Term Effects of Short-Term Work: Dynamics in Fatigue across Two National Lockdowns

Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Happiness and Socioeconomic Conditions: Differences Across Countries and Individuals' Personality Traits

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

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