A UK study reveals that giving employees autonomy over remote work arrangements fundamentally transforms its impact on their wellbeing. The COVID-19 lockdowns proved this point.
The reversing of the effect of working from home on mental health during the lockdown could be due to selection still, the controls are probably not enough
My intuition is that working from home increases happiness, since people really dislike having to commute, and many people dislike having to "socialize "
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The obvious confounding is the selection into the groups who "have" to do the typical
The lockdown itself didn't seem to affect mental health that negatively outside of the effect of covid-19
Two meta-analysis:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/psychological-impact-of-covid19-pandemic-lockdowns-a-review-and-metaanalysis-of-longitudinal-studies-and-natural-experiments/04BBA90C535107A90B851DFCE8D4693C
And
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40453305/
The reversing of the effect of working from home on mental health during the lockdown could be due to selection still, the controls are probably not enough
My intuition is that working from home increases happiness, since people really dislike having to commute, and many people dislike having to "socialize "