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Spatial (in)justice shaping the home as a space of work

Buildings & Cities
Drawing on an extensive literature review, this study examines how injustices manifest in space and the role of space in engendering injustices when associated with working at home.
Dalia Milián Bernal, Jasmin Laitinen, Hannah Shevchenko, Oxana Ivanova, Sofie Pelsmakers, Essi Nisonen   +5 more
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What difference does it make? A laboratory experiment on the effectiveness of health-oriented leadership working on-site compared to the digital working context

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Health-oriented leadership (HoL) represents an important workplace resource for employees. However, as opportunities to work from home increase, the question arises, whether leadership is more or less effective in digital working contexts ...
Laura Klebe, Jörg Felfe
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Working from Home during COVID-19 and Beyond: Exploring the Perceptions of Consultants in Construction

Buildings, 2023
Given the construction industry’s culture of presenteeism and long work hours, construction workforce who used to working in the company workplace were affected by the sudden shift to working from home (WFH) setting due to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.
Bee Lan Oo, Benson Teck Heng Lim, Sumin Kim   +2 more
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Health Literacy, Self‐Efficacy and Knowledge of Sickle Cell Disease Among Caregivers

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a hereditary blood disorder in which abnormal haemoglobin leads to severe anaemia, painful crises and organ failure. Caregivers’ health literacy (HL) – their ability to assess, understand and apply information, and interact with healthcare professionals – is crucial for managing children with SCD, yet ...
Melanie Bruinooge, Maite E. Houwing, Rowena L. Grohssteiner, Ferdows Atiq, Sonja A. M. C. Teuben, Mirjam P. Fransen, Marjon H. Cnossen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Associations Between Employment Changes and Mental Health: US Data From During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Objectives: To examine associations of changing employment conditions, specifically switching to working from home (WFH) or job loss, with mental health, using data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: Data from 2,301 US adults in employment ...
Cillian P. McDowell, Cillian P. McDowell, Matthew P. Herring, Matthew P. Herring, Matthew P. Herring, Jeni Lansing, Cassandra S. Brower, Jacob D. Meyer   +7 more
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Early Impact of Childhood Opportunity on Neurocognitive Outcomes in Sickle Cell Disease

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Neurocognitive impairment is a well‐recognized complication of sickle cell disease (SCD) that begins early in childhood and persists across development. While cerebrovascular injury contributes substantially to risk, neurocognitive deficits are also observed in children without overt or silent cerebral infarctions, suggesting ...
Julia E. LaMotte, Hannah Koch, Olivia A. Coughlin, Jillian R. Bouck, Allie Carter, Seethal A. Jacob   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Individualism and working from home

Economic Inquiry
Abstract We show that culturally transmitted individualism is an important determinant of working from home (WFH). Using individual‐level data from the U.S. Current Population Survey (CPS) and the European Social Survey (ESS), we compare immigrants and their descendants from different cultural backgrounds residing in the same location.
Jan Bietenbeck, Natalie Irmert, Therese Nilsson   +2 more
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Working from Home in Developing Countries [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
Abstract We use worker-level data on the task content of jobs to measure the ability to work-from-home (WFH) in developing countries. We show that the ability to WFH is low in developing countries and document significant heterogeneity across and within occupations, and across worker characteristics.
Gottlieb, Charles, Grobovsek, Jan, Poschke, Markus, Saltiel, Fernando   +3 more
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Re‐Irradiation in Pediatric Diffuse Midline Glioma: A Multi‐Institutional Retrospective Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with recurrent diffuse midline gliomas (DMGs) have limited therapeutic options at recurrence. Re‐irradiation (RT2) may be used at progression, but with uncertainty about the benefit. Methods We conducted a multi‐institutional retrospective study of children aged < 18 with DMG treated at three centers (Toronto, Canada ...
Ajay Thomas Alex, Sean P. Hassan, Helen Benghiat, Liam Herbert, Jennifer Adamski, Shivani Bailey, Claire Esler, Louise Brookes, Molly Bamber, Grace Koudou, Karen Waite, Julie Bennett, Anirban Das, Derek S. Tsang   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Working From Home Phenomenon As an Effort to Prevent COVID-19 Attacks and Its Impacts on Work Productivity

TIJAB (The International Journal of Applied Business), 2020
COVID-19 attacks have changed the methods and cultures of work in many organizations, the working from home (WFH) phenomenon as an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in many countries in the world has impacts on employee productivity.
Duta Mustajab, Azies Bauw, Abdul Rasyid, Andri Irawan, Muhammad Aldrin Akbar, Muhammad Amin Hamid   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source