Home-Based Telework and Presenteeism Across Europe.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Flexible work arrangements such as telework are gaining importance. Although telework is accompanied by advantages for employees such as increased flexibility, current research reveals associations between home-based telework and self-endangering behavior such as sickness presenteeism. As empirical evidence is still scarce, we explore the relationship between home-based telework and sickness presenteeism across Europe.

Methods

We perform multilevel analyses including 25,465 individuals who responded to the 6th wave of the European Working Conditions Survey 2015.

Results

Home-based telework is positively related to sickness presenteeism. The results are quite robust across different measures of sickness presenteeism and to several sensitivity analyses.

Con

SUBMITTER: Steidelmuller C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7720871 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature