Working from Home and Emotional Well-Being during Major Daily Activities

Autor: Eliana Zeballos, Brandon Restrepo
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Volume 20
Issue 4
Pages: 3616
ISSN: 1660-4601
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20043616
Popis: The effect of WFH (working from home) on the quality of life of U.S. workers is not well understood. We analyze the association between WFH and overall emotional well-being during major daily activities. Using data from the 2021 Well-Being Module of the American Time Use Survey, we conduct a principal component analysis to construct a measure of overall emotional well-being and jointly estimate the association between WFH and overall emotional well-being scores in a seemingly unrelated regression framework. Our results show that compared to workers who worked outside the home, those who WFH had higher emotional well-being scores while working and eating away from home. However, no statistically significant differences were found for home-based daily activities such as relaxing, leisure, food preparation, and eating at home. These findings inform how WFH may shape the quality of a life day.
Databáze: OpenAIRE