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Telework and time use
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2021
This chapter reviews the evidence on the relationship between telework and households' time allocation, drawing heavily on the empirical evidence from time diary data, and discusses the implications of telework for workers' productivity, wages, labor force participation, and well-being. Telework...
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Working at home in Greece: unexplored potential at times of social distancing?
Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2020
homeworking patterns and determinants in Greece, relative to other EU countries. This includes a higher prevalence of WfH among …
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Telework and time use in the United States
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2020
effects of teleworking on wages, and differences in time-use patterns between office and work-at-home workdays. We find that … some teleworkers earn a wage premium, but it varies by occupation, gender, parental status, and teleworking intensity …
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Does telework stress employees out? : a study on working at home and subjective well-being for wage/salary workers
Song, Younghwan; Gao, Jia - 2018
to working in the workplace. We further decompose homeworking into telework and bringing work home and find that the … effect of SWB varies by types of homeworking. In comparison with working in the workplace, telework increases stress in both … received. The only positive effect of homeworking we discover is that telework reduces tiredness on weekdays. As to the …
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Sick of working from home?
Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric - 2024
Driven by new information technologies, working from home has experienced unprecedented growth since the COVID pandemic. We contribute to the debate on the consequences of this development by drawing on a French reform conducted in 2017, with the aim of facilitating telework agreements between...
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Job satisfaction and work-life balance: differences between homework and work at the workplace of the company
Bellmann, Lutz; Hübler, Olaf - 2020
Working remotely can complement and sometimes completely substitute conventional work at the workplace of the company. Until the COVID-19 crisis the share of remote workers was relatively low and empirical investigations show inconsistent results. The recent work has highlighted a dramatic shift...
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Family-friendly work practices in Britain : availability and perceived accessibility
Budd, John W. (contributor); Mumford, Karen (contributor) - 2005
Using linked data for British workplaces and employees we find a low base rate of workplace-level availability for five family-friendly work practices--parental leave, paid leave, job sharing, subsidized child care, and working at home -- and a substantially lower rate of individual-level...
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Who Is doing the chores and childcare in dual-earner couples during the COVID-19 era of working from home?
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2022
In 2020, parents' work-from-home days increased fourfold following the initial COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period compared to 2015-2019. At the same time, many daycares closed, and the majority of public schools offered virtual or hybrid classrooms, increasing the demand for household-provided...
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Remote work across jobs, companies, and space
Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023
The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art languageprocessing framework that we fit, test, and refine...
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Cognitive performance in the home office - evidence from professional chess
Künn, Steffen; Seel, Christian; Zēgners, Dainis - 2020
when competing online compared to competing offline. Our results suggest that teleworking might have adverse effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252771