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Working from Home: Is Our Housing Ready?
The COVID-19 pandemic and the precautionary measures applied globally (lockdowns and curfews) have impacted homes, including work. Working from home (WFH) has emerged as a growing trend in the post-pandemic era. The research question was: Are our homes ready for teleworking? To respond, a national prospective mixed approach was launched for Spanish households during the spring 2020 lockdown, using two online questionnaires, one quantitative and the other qualitative. Through a survey, photographs, and narratives, the study evaluates the perceived adequacy of telework spaces and their specific characteristics, the availability of digital resources and the internet. A total of 1800 surveys and over 200 images and texts related to telework environments were obtained. The results suggest that the adequacy of these spaces was insufficient for more than a quarter of the homes. Also, strong relations between the perceived workspace adequacy and a social status or stability of homes were shown and validated, despite other sociodemographic features, the home composition or habitat were not related. Some other variables statistically significant were occupation regime, type and surface of dwellings; their indoor environmental quality; the availability of exclusive spaces for teleworking; quality of digital resources; and the specific space features. The analysis was completed with qualitative insights through photos and texts. Telework, lived in this context as an experiment, needs this reflection from an environmental, resource-availability, and ergonomic point of view.
photo, narrative, Article, Narrative, Telework space adequacy index (TSAI), comfort, Humans, telework space adequacy index (TSAI), Prospective Studies, Pandemics, Telework, mixed-method, SARS-CoV-2, telework, home spaces, COVID-19, Comfort, Photo, Home spaces, Mixed-method, confinement, remote work, Communicable Disease Control, Housing, Confinement, Remote work
photo, narrative, Article, Narrative, Telework space adequacy index (TSAI), comfort, Humans, telework space adequacy index (TSAI), Prospective Studies, Pandemics, Telework, mixed-method, SARS-CoV-2, telework, home spaces, COVID-19, Comfort, Photo, Home spaces, Mixed-method, confinement, remote work, Communicable Disease Control, Housing, Confinement, Remote work
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