Home sweet home: Working from home and employee performance during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.

ABSTRACT: In 2020, many governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by encouraging employees to work from home (WFH). Analyzing representative data from the UK, we find that the pandemic-led increases in WFH frequency are associated with a higher self-perceived hourly productivity among employed respondents. Interestingly, changes in WFH frequency are unrelated to the respondents' weekly working hours and weekly wages during the same period. While the WFH-productivity association is more substantial in non-lockdown months, it is inexistent during the months with strict lockdowns, indicating that lockdown measures inhibited the baseline association. The WFH-productivity association is weaker among parents with increased homeschooling needs due to school closures implemented during lockdowns. In ad

SUBMITTER: Deole SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9678226 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature