Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
The significance of occupations, family responsibilities, and gender for working from home: Lessons from COVID-19
Originally published 2022-06-13 · PLoS ONE
PLOS · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0266393 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about equitable support for employees whose jobs cannot be done at home; the original evidence concerns 1414 employed men and women in German family-panel data linked to occupational information.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Respect
Who can actually use the option to work from home?
This reading brings occupation, status, gender and unequal access to working from home into the respect pathway. The german family-panel and labor-force secondary analysis offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
1414 employed men and women in German family-panel data linked to occupational information
Age / stage: Working adults; household care responsibilities varied
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess occupational characteristics and homeworking access?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about family responsibilities compared with occupational constraints?
- What would need to be checked before adopting equitable support for employees whose jobs cannot be done at home?
Keep the limits in view
Pandemic-era transition models are observational; access to homeworking is not itself a measure of work quality or parenting outcomes.
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Lara Minkus; Nicolai Groepler; Sonja Drobnič (2022). The significance of occupations, family responsibilities, and gender for working from home: Lessons from COVID-19 PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266393
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