TY - JOUR
T1 - Workplace impact on employees
T2 - A Lifelines Corona Research Initiative on the return to work
AU - Lifelines Corona Research initiative
AU - Mobach, Mark P.
AU - Boezen, H. M
AU - Mierau, Jochen O.
AU - Franke, H. Lude
AU - Dekens, Jackie
AU - Deelen, Patrick
AU - Lanting, Pauline
AU - Vonk, Judith M.
AU - Nolte, Ilja
AU - Ori, Anil P.S.
AU - Claringbould, Annique
AU - Boulogne, Floranne
AU - Dijkema, Marjolein X.L.
AU - Wiersma, Henry H.
AU - Warmerdam, Robert
AU - Jankipersadsing, Soesma A.
AU - van Blokland, Irene
AU - de Bock, Geer Truida H.
AU - Rosmalen, Judith G.M.
AU - Wijmenga, Cisca
N1 - Funding Information:
The Lifelines Biobank initiative has been made possible by subsidy from the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG the Netherlands), University Groningen and the Provinces Groningen, Friesland, and Drenthe of Northern Netherlands. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright: © 2023 Mobach, Lifelines Corona Research Initiative. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2023/1/5
Y1 - 2023/1/5
N2 - A large proportion of the global workforce migrated home during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. It remains unclear what the exact differences between home workers and non-home workers were, especially during the pandemic when a return to work was imminent. How were building, workplace, and related facilities associated with workers’ perceptions and health? What are the lessons to be learned? Lifelines Corona Research Initiative was used to compare employees’ workplaces and related concerns, facilities, work quality, and health in a complete case analysis (N = 12,776) when return to work was imminent. Mann-Whitney U, logistic regression, and Wilcoxon matched-pairs were used for analyses. Notwithstanding small differences, the results show that home workers had less favourable scores for concerns about and facilities of on-site buildings and workplaces upon return to work, but better scores for work quality and health than non-home workers. However, additional analyses also suggest that building, workplace, and related facilities may have had the capacity to positively influence employees’ affective responses and work quality, but not always their health.
AB - A large proportion of the global workforce migrated home during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. It remains unclear what the exact differences between home workers and non-home workers were, especially during the pandemic when a return to work was imminent. How were building, workplace, and related facilities associated with workers’ perceptions and health? What are the lessons to be learned? Lifelines Corona Research Initiative was used to compare employees’ workplaces and related concerns, facilities, work quality, and health in a complete case analysis (N = 12,776) when return to work was imminent. Mann-Whitney U, logistic regression, and Wilcoxon matched-pairs were used for analyses. Notwithstanding small differences, the results show that home workers had less favourable scores for concerns about and facilities of on-site buildings and workplaces upon return to work, but better scores for work quality and health than non-home workers. However, additional analyses also suggest that building, workplace, and related facilities may have had the capacity to positively influence employees’ affective responses and work quality, but not always their health.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0279902
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0279902
M3 - Article
C2 - 36603012
AN - SCOPUS:85145668875
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 18
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
IS - 1
M1 - e0279902
ER -