SynthesisBMC public health2022
The relationship between telework from home and employee health: a systematic review.
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50 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Teleworking and its impact on health and well-being: a systematic review of longitudinal studies considering the psychosocial work environment (2005-2024).BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Experiences of working from home: umbrella review.Journal of occupational health · 2024Pooled it
- The relationship between homeworking during COVID-19 and both, mental health, and productivity: a systematic review.BMC psychology · 2023Pooled it
- Home-based telework and worker health and well-being across service occupations: A critical interpretive synthesis.SSM - population health · 2026Review
- Assessing the antecedents behind after-hours work in teleworkers: a scoping review.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- What Fosters Leaders' Health Role Modeling? Communication and Remote Work as Boundary Conditions.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Telework and mental health among caregiving workers in Japan: a cross-sectional study using data from the 2024 JACSIS and implications for age-friendly workplaces.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Impact of transferring from "work from home" to office work on workers' musculoskeletal disorder symptoms and mental health in Taiwan.BMC public health · 2026Article
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- Advancing virtual and hybrid team well-being through a job demand-resources lens.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2025Article
- Recommendations to support the mental health and wellbeing of response-focused civil servants asked to work from home during public health emergencies in the United Kingdom: a Delphi study.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- The impact of telework allowance and utilization on physiological and perceived stress among Swedish white-collar workers.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2025Article
- The role of work location in associations between need satisfaction and well-being at work: a daily diary design among Dutch office workers.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on long-term sickness absences due to mental disorders in public servants: a retrospective observational study.BMC public health · 2025Observational
- Working from home and well-being during the pandemic and beyond: a longitudinal analysis in five countries.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Remote work - the new normal needs more research.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2025Article
- Covid-19 pandemic-related changes in teleworking, emotional exhaustion, and occupational burnout: a cross-sectional analysis of a cohort study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Working from home and health complaints: on the difference between telework and informal overtime at home.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Remote work and long-term sickness absence due to mental disorder trends among Japanese workers pre/post COVID-19.PloS one · 2025Article
- The Empty Office: protocol for sequential mixed-method study on the impact of telework activities on social relations and well-being.BMJ open · 2024Article
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- Erratum issued
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Abstract
backgroundGlobalization and technological progress have made telework arrangements such as telework from home (TWFH) well-established in modern economies. TWFH was rapidly and widely implemented to reduce virus spread during the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, and will probably be widespread also post-pandemic. How such work arrangements affect employee health is largely unknown. Main objective of this review was to assess the evidence on the relationship between TWFH and employee health.
methodsWe conducted electronic searches in MEDLINE, Embase, Amed, PsycINFO, PubMed, and Scopus for peer-reviewed, original research with quantitative design published from January 2010 to February 2021. Our aim was to assess the evidence for associations between TWFH and health-related outcomes in employed office workers. Risk of bias in each study was evaluated by the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale and the collected body of evidence was evaluated using the the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach.
resultsWe included 14 relevant studies (22,919 participants) reporting on 28 outcomes, which were sorted into six outcome categories (general health, pain, well-being, stress, exhaustion & burnout, and satisfaction with overall life & leisure). Few studies, with many having suboptimal designs and/or other methodological issues, investigating a limited number of outcomes, resulted in the body of evidence for the detected outcome categories being GRADED either as low or very low.
conclusionsThe consisting evidence on the relationship between TWFH and employee health is scarce. The non-existence of studies on many relevant and important health outcomes indicates a vast knowledge gap that is crucial to fill when determining how to implement TWFH in the future working life. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION NUMBER: PROSPERO registration ID # CRD42021233796 .
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