Department of Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology, National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway.
Department of Work Psychology, National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway.
BMC Public Health. 2022 Jan 7;22(1):47. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-12481-2.
Globalization and technological progress have made telework arrangements such as telework from home (TWFH) well-established in modern economies. TWFH was rapidly and widely implemented to reduce virus spread during the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, and will probably be widespread also post-pandemic. How such work arrangements affect employee health is largely unknown. Main objective of this review was to assess the evidence on the relationship between TWFH and employee health.
We conducted electronic searches in MEDLINE, Embase, Amed, PsycINFO, PubMed, and Scopus for peer-reviewed, original research with quantitative design published from January 2010 to February 2021. Our aim was to assess the evidence for associations between TWFH and health-related outcomes in employed office workers. Risk of bias in each study was evaluated by the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale and the collected body of evidence was evaluated using the the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach.
We included 14 relevant studies (22,919 participants) reporting on 28 outcomes, which were sorted into six outcome categories (general health, pain, well-being, stress, exhaustion & burnout, and satisfaction with overall life & leisure). Few studies, with many having suboptimal designs and/or other methodological issues, investigating a limited number of outcomes, resulted in the body of evidence for the detected outcome categories being GRADED either as low or very low.
The consisting evidence on the relationship between TWFH and employee health is scarce. The non-existence of studies on many relevant and important health outcomes indicates a vast knowledge gap that is crucial to fill when determining how to implement TWFH in the future working life.
PROSPERO registration ID # CRD42021233796 .
全球化和技术进步使远程办公等远程工作安排在现代经济中得到广泛应用。为了在冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行期间减少病毒传播，远程工作安排（包括居家远程办公）迅速且广泛地实施，而且这种工作安排在大流行后可能也会广泛存在。这种工作安排如何影响员工健康在很大程度上是未知的。本综述的主要目的是评估居家远程办公与员工健康之间关系的证据。
我们在 MEDLINE、Embase、Amed、PsycINFO、PubMed 和 Scopus 中进行了电子检索，以查找 2010 年 1 月至 2021 年 2 月发表的具有定量设计的同行评审原始研究。我们的目的是评估居家远程办公与在职办公室工作人员健康相关结果之间的关联证据。通过纽卡斯尔-渥太华量表评估每个研究的偏倚风险，并使用推荐评估、制定与评估（GRADE）方法评估收集的证据体。
我们纳入了 14 项相关研究（22919 名参与者），报告了 28 个结果，这些结果被分为六个结果类别（一般健康、疼痛、幸福感、压力、疲惫和倦怠、以及对整体生活和休闲的满意度）。很少有研究具有较差的设计和/或其他方法学问题，调查的结果数量有限，这导致检测到的结果类别证据的等级为低或极低。
关于居家远程办公与员工健康之间关系的现有证据很少。许多相关和重要的健康结果没有研究，这表明存在一个巨大的知识空白，这在确定未来工作生活中如何实施居家远程办公时至关重要。
PROSPERO 注册号 #CRD42021233796。
