Research Design Connection: Telework and Wellbeing
Song and Gao investigated how wellbeing is influenced by telework; their findings will interest people developing and managing workplaces. Specifically, Song and Gao probed “how subjective wellbeing varies among wage/salary workers between working at home and working in the workplace…We find that compared to working in the workplace, bringing work home on weekdays is associated with less happiness, and telework on weekdays or weekends/holidays is associated with more stress. The effect of working at home on subjective wellbeing also varies by parental status and gender. Parents, especially fathers, report a lower level of subjective wellbeing when working at home on weekdays but a higher level of subjective wellbeing when working at home on weekends/holidays. Non-parents’ subjective wellbeing does not vary much by where they work on weekdays, but on weekends/holidays childless males feel less painful whereas childless females feel more stressed when teleworking instead of working in the workplace.” Younghwan …
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