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ArticleIndustrial & labor relations review2025

Working from Home, COVID-19, and Job Satisfaction.

Inga Laß, Esperanza Vera-Toscano, Mark Wooden

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Inga LaßInga Laß and Esperanza Vera-Toscano are Senior Research Fellows at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne. Mark Wooden is Professor Emeritus at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne. At the time this research commenced, Inga Laß was a Senior Researcher at the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) (Germany).ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4912-0356
Esperanza Vera-ToscanoInga Laß and Esperanza Vera-Toscano are Senior Research Fellows at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne. Mark Wooden is Professor Emeritus at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne. At the time this research commenced, Inga Laß was a Senior Researcher at the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) (Germany).
Mark WoodenInga Laß and Esperanza Vera-Toscano are Senior Research Fellows at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne. Mark Wooden is Professor Emeritus at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne. At the time this research commenced, Inga Laß was a Senior Researcher at the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) (Germany).

Funding

The economic and social impact of pandemic mitigation policies: A cross-country analysis of macro eventsR01AG071649 · NIA · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI LILLARD, DEAN R · 2021 to 2025
$4.8M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG071649
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article examines the impact of the growth in the incidence of working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic on workers' job satisfaction. Using longitudinal data collected in 2019 and 2021 as part of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, fixed-effects models of job satisfaction are estimated. Changes in the share of total weekly work hours usually worked from home are not found to have any significant association with changes in job satisfaction for men. By contrast, a strong significant positive (but nonlinear) association is found for women, and this relationship is concentrated on women with children. These findings suggest the main benefit of working from home for workers arises from the improved ability to combine work and family responsibilities, something that matters more to women given they continue to shoulder most of the responsibility for house and care work.

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COVID-19 pandemicgenderHILDA Surveyteleworkwell-beingwork–family balance

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PMID39895897
PMCPMC11785509

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