The power of preferences
Productivity and stress in new teleworkers during Covid-19
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15100732 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Georg D Blind (University of Duisburg-Essen), Georg Wydra (Mercator Institute for China Studies), Stefania Lottanti von Mandach (University of Zurich, corresponding author), Masahiro Kotosaka (0000-0002-5637-1551, Keio University), David Chiavacci (0000-0002-1747-2907, University of Zurich) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 241-259 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science Japan Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-1465 • E-ISSN: 1468-2680 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ssjj/jyae017 |
| OpenAlex | W4401830375 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 42 |
This study of teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic avoids a common self-selection bias by controlling for preferences and whether the introduction of teleworking was voluntary or mandatory. In a survey (n = 1,500) conducted in December 2020, we inquired about working arrangements and agent preferences in January, April, and December 2020. Productivity levels initially did not significantly differ for newly teleworking individuals after correcting for age, gender, marital status, breadwinner and management roles, childcare gap, area, job type, and general awareness, but were negatively affected by a preference mismatch (PM; around −3pp) and cognitive dissonance (not going with one’s preference in spite of having a chance to do so, adding another −5pp). By December 2020, individuals with a PM lost as much as 9pp of their productivity levels, but the net effect for those in partially remote work was only about −2pp. Similarly, stress levels initially did not differ for newly teleworking individuals using largely the same controls as before. By December 2020, stress levels for individuals newly undertaking fully remote telework were significantly lower than for the control group of individuals with unchanged working arrangements, but the PM contributed significantly to higher stress levels
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Biology · Business · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Economic growth · Economics · Power (physics) · Productivity · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) · Stress (linguistics) · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Employment and Welfare Studies · Medicine · Virology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
Uncertainty, stress, and health
Is there a price telecommuters pay? Examining the relationship between telecommuting and objective career success
Mechanisms to improve labor productivity by performing telework
Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment
What Are We Weighting For
Doing Intimacy in Pandemic Times
A review of telework research
Self‐leadership in the context of part‐time teleworking
Three generations of Telework
Women’s employment patterns after childbirth and the perceived access to and use of flexitime and teleworking
Supervisory approaches and paradoxes in managing telecommuting implementation
Moderators of the curvilinear relation between extent of telecommuting and job and life satisfaction
Telework in a Land of Overwork
The non-use of telework in an ideal worker culture
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |