Working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic : lessons on well-being, work-life balance, and health

Franca, Valentina (avtor), Domadenik Muren, Polona (avtor)

Increased levels of work from home, the most significant pandemic legacy, is here to stay, necessitating its examination from different perspectives. This paper focuses on the well-being, work-life balance and health challenges this paradigm shift brings. In our survey of 241 Slovenian companies, we found that the experience of forced work from home was better than expected, though it still poses risk to well-being, work-life balance and health, and that consensual work from home positively influences worker satisfaction, leading to increased productivity. However, the forced work from home resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic is not comparable to consensual remote work because it provides a more controlled environment; it is, therefore, critical that workers and their representatives are involved in organizing work from home with management to develop strategies to better develop motivation and optimize productivity. Further research should focus on longitudinal studies to specifically examine the impact on workers in this context, which will also provide a more robust basis for formulating recommendations and policy.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: COVID-19, work from home, work-life-balance, health and safety at work
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: EF - Ekonomska fakulteta
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2023
• Št. strani: Str. 1-14
• Številčenje: iss. 84
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-153383
• UDK: 349.245:616-036.21:578.834
• ISSN pri članku: 1304-0103
• DOI: 10.26650/jspc.2023.84.1207474
• COBISS.SI-ID: 161234179
• Datum objave v RUL: 28.12.2023

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Journal of social policy conferences
• Skrajšan naslov: Sos. siyaset konf. derg.
• Založnik: İstanbul Üniversitesi
• ISSN: 1304-0103
• COBISS.SI-ID: 519195929

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY-NC 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva-Nekomercialno 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: Licenca Creative Commons, ki prepoveduje komercialno uporabo, vendar uporabniki ne rabijo upravljati materialnih avtorskih pravic na izpeljanih delih z enako licenco.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: korona virus, delo od doma, ravnovesje med delom in zasebnim življenjem, zdravje in varnost pri delu

Projekti

• Financer: EC - European Commission
• Program financ.: European Social Fund

• Financer: Drugi - Drug financer ali več financerjev
• Program financ.: Republic of Slovenia