"We're all in the same storm, but not all of us are in the same boat": qualitative exploration of UK response-focused civil servants experiences of working from home during COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The experiences of UK Government response-focused employees, who were considered frontline workers during the coronavirus response, are missing from current literature. Meeting the demands of being on the frontline, whilst also adjusting from a normal and practiced way of working to having to work from within one's home, may bring a plethora of new barriers and facilitators associated with providing an effective pandemic response.

Method

This interview study collected and analysed data from 30 UK Civil servants who worked on the COVID-19 pandemic response from their own homes. Interviews aimed to: (1) explore UK Government employee's experiences of working from home whilst contributing to the pandemic response; and, (2) establish what support and guidance employ

SUBMITTER: Hall CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11761760 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature