The Fair Work Commission is considering basic rights to work from home. Here’s what the evidence says about the impacts of working from home on physical health and mental wellbeing.
The findings look to be based on data from a long-term study that tracked 375 Australian adults using fitness trackers starting in 2019, which provided a baseline of data from before the pandemic https://academic.oup.com/abm/article/58/4/286/7613320
I did more digging and here are some more sources
https://theconversation.com/working-from-home-can-make-us-healthier-and-happier-employers-benefit-too-heres-the-evidence-if-you-need-any-convincing-224510
The findings look to be based on data from a long-term study that tracked 375 Australian adults using fitness trackers starting in 2019, which provided a baseline of data from before the pandemic https://academic.oup.com/abm/article/58/4/286/7613320
And here’s one of the specific papers published from the ARIA data. It analyzes the direct impact of the initial COVID-19 lockdowns and is the source of the “extra sleep” finding. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0248008
Thanks for doing the extra legwork—there’s a lot of great studies in there!
O7