Work productivity in the office and at home during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐sectional analysis of office workers in Japan

Umishio, Wataru; Kagi, Naoki; Asaoka, Ryo; Hayashi, Motoya; Sawachi, Takao; Ueno, Tomo

doi:10.1111/ina.12913

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“…The main result of this paper is that, in the case of WFH employees living in urban areas with housemates, HSWs in all types of residences had problems related to noise. This finding is different from that shown by Umishio et al (2021) [ 20 ], where satisfaction with the sound environment was higher at home than in the office. One possible reason for this is that, unlike the study by Umishio et al, this paper targeted only WFH employees living in urban areas with housemates.…”

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Work-Related Stress of Work from Home with Housemates Based on Residential Types

Natomi

Kato

Matsushita

2022

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on work environments. Many workers have been requested or instructed to work from home (WFH). This study aimed to clarify the work-related stress of WFH regarding housemates based on residential types during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a web-based questionnaire survey of 500 workers living with housemates in Osaka Prefecture. The WFH environments were analyzed on the basis of high-stress workers (HSWs), which accounted for 17.4% of all subjects, according to three major types of residences in Japan. The main finding is that HSWs with housemates had problems related to noise regardless of the type of residence. This study of workers living with housemates in an urban area contrasts with the findings of preceding study, which found that satisfaction with noise in the environment was higher at home than in the office. HSWs in detached houses and condominium apartments had problems with the levels of noise created by their housemates. The residents living in these types of residences were found to be relatively older, thus potentially having older children who would require a certain level of privacy. WFH workers with insufficient privacy were unable to adapt to WFH environments and suffered from high stress.

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“…Umishio et al [ 20 ] conducted a questionnaire survey and environmental measurements on 916 WFH workers in 22 offices in Japan. The results showed that home workers were less satisfied with the lighting, spatial, and IT environments and more satisfied with the thermal, air, and sound environments compared to office workers.…”

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Work-Related Stress of Work from Home with Housemates Based on Residential Types

Natomi

Kato

Matsushita

2022

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“…Studies showed that WFH is implemented in many types of organizations (Pathak et al, 2021;Umishio et al, 2021). The dimension of WFH includes space, time, and social roles (Gądecki et al, 2018).…”

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Implications of work motivation, employee discipline, and compensation on employee performance while working from home at a digital marketing company

Azmy

Risza

Adhykusuma

2022

manaj. pemasar. jasa.

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Many organizations apply WFH policy during the pandemic. In this study, we focused on the employee performance quality when engaged in this working pattern. The result of the study is expected to provide positive recommendations to organizations in implementing the WFH policy. This approach allows researchers to see the significance of the construct and its effect on employee performance. 104 out of 140 employees were recruited as participants using a purposive sampling technique based on several criteria. The obtained data are considered representative of the population. This study examined the effect of workmotivation, work discipline, and compensation on employee performance. These variables were analyzed the Work from Home (WFH) setting during the COVID-19 pandemic. The result of the study may provide a positive recommendation to improve employee performance when working from home. This study found that work motivation and discipline positively affected employees’ job performance. Compensation did not affect but had a positive relationship with employees’ job performance. Work discipline was found to be the most dominant variable affecting the increase in employee performance during WFH. The organization needs to evaluate the compensation program to improve the work outcome quality and rewards for employees during the WFH program.

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“…Numerous studies on productivity while working from home have been conducted, and they suggest that productivity, job satisfaction, and life satisfaction improves while working from home compared with working from the office [ [8] , [9] , [10] , [11] , [12] , [13] , [14] , [15] , [16] , [17] ]. In a survey of call center employees of travel agencies, Bloom et al [ 15 ] showed that working from home improved productivity by 13%.…”

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Study on residential environment and workers’ personality traits on productivity while working from home

Kawakubo

Arata

2022

Building and Environment

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Working from home has drawn more attention with the development of information and communications technology and the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Although studies on working from home have been conducted in various academic fields, few have focused on residential environment and personality traits. In the present study, air temperature and humidity of the home workplace were measured and a questionnaire survey was conducted to understand the relationship between residential environment and personality traits and at-home work productivity. The results suggest that comprehensive productivity while working from home improved. However, when examining individual aspects of productivity, the productivity of information processing improved while that of knowledge processing and knowledge creation deteriorated. The results also suggest the importance of improving the residential environment when working from home because productivity while working from home rather than from the office improved with high evaluation of the residential environment. Moreover, productivity decreased for workers with high neuroticism and increased for those with high openness or perseverance and passion, suggesting that some personality traits are more or less suitable for working from home. To improve the productivity of all workers, these findings have practical implications for promoting appropriate maintenance of the residential environment and introducing flexible work styles that account for personality traits.

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Work productivity in the office and at home during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐sectional analysis of office workers in Japan

Cited by 30 publications

References 21 publications

Work-Related Stress of Work from Home with Housemates Based on Residential Types

Work-Related Stress of Work from Home with Housemates Based on Residential Types

Implications of work motivation, employee discipline, and compensation on employee performance while working from home at a digital marketing company

Study on residential environment and workers’ personality traits on productivity while working from home

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