Laß Inga, Vera-Toscano Esperanza, Wooden Mark
Inga Laß and Esperanza Vera-Toscano are Senior Research Fellows at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne. Mark Wooden is Professor Emeritus at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne. At the time this research commenced, Inga Laß was a Senior Researcher at the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) (Germany).
Ind Labor Relat Rev. 2025 Mar;78(2):330-354. doi: 10.1177/00197939241301704. Epub 2024 Dec 7.
This article examines the impact of the growth in the incidence of working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic on workers' job satisfaction. Using longitudinal data collected in 2019 and 2021 as part of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, fixed-effects models of job satisfaction are estimated. Changes in the share of total weekly work hours usually worked from home are not found to have any significant association with changes in job satisfaction for men. By contrast, a strong significant positive (but nonlinear) association is found for women, and this relationship is concentrated on women with children. These findings suggest the main benefit of working from home for workers arises from the improved ability to combine work and family responsibilities, something that matters more to women given they continue to shoulder most of the responsibility for house and care work.
本文探讨了新冠疫情期间居家工作发生率的增长对员工工作满意度的影响。利用2019年和2021年收集的纵向数据，这些数据是澳大利亚家庭、收入与劳动力动态调查（HILDA）的一部分，估计了工作满意度的固定效应模型。未发现男性通常在家工作的每周总工作时长占比变化与工作满意度变化有任何显著关联。相比之下，发现女性存在显著的强正相关（但非线性），且这种关系集中在有孩子的女性身上。这些发现表明，居家工作对员工的主要好处在于更好地平衡工作和家庭责任的能力，鉴于女性仍然承担着大部分家务和照料工作，这对女性更为重要。
