This paper examines the effects of working from home on mental health, using unique real time survey data from South Korea collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that working from home negatively affects the mental health of workers in the first half of 2020. Furthermore, we find ...
working from homeis “hurting their mental health.” The study, which also included in-depth accounts from 686 people about the ways in which their mental health is being affected, found thatemployees feel isolatedand are working more because there’s no clear delineation between work and home....
Movement is a great segway to good mental health making it one of our 11 mental health tips for working from home. When you’re working in a physical office space with others, you probably walk to meetings, walk to others’ desks to ask questions, walk to the water cooler, maybe walk ...
In response to public health restrictions to stop the spread of COVID-19, organizations quickly switched to WFH without fully comprehending the effects of continued WFH on mental and physical health. Working from anywhere and at any time has made the separation between business and personal life...
But which environment is better for one’s mental health? The folks at Statista wanted to learn just that, so they surveyed more than 5,000 people who worked from home, an office, or a factory. Interestingly, according toWay.com, those working from home had slightly higher rates of mental...
“Decades of research show that women do significantly more housework and childcare than men—so much so that women who are employed full-time are often said to be working a ‘double shift,’” according to the McKinsey report. That “double shift” also brings with it mental ...
Working where you live is not as easy as it sounds, especially if you have other people in the space. Here's how to avoid the darker side of remote work.
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Thousands of people are still working from home in what was initially thought to be a temporary solution to fight coronavirus. Six months later, psychologists said working from home could be here to stay. “The measures we took to keep happy and healthy when we ar...
The attention to workplace mental health is timely given extreme levels of burnout, anxiety, depression and trauma experienced by workers due to serious ex
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