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Abstract：
Working from home (WFH) has risen in popularity since the COVID-19 pandemic. There is an ongoing debate about the productivity implications of WFH, but the physical climate of the home office has received only limited attention. This paper investigates the effect of home office satisfaction and environment-improving behavior on productivity and burnout tendency for WFH employees. We surveyed over 1,000 Dutch WFH individuals about their home office and perceived WFH performance. We fit logistic regressions and structural equation models to investigate the effect of home office satisfaction and characteristics on self-reported productivity, burnout tendency, and willingness to continue WFH. Our results reveal that individual differences in WFH productivity are explained by heterogeneity in the physical home office environment. Higher satisfaction with home office factors is significantly associated with increased productivity and decreased burnout tendency. We continue by showing that more ventilation during working hours is associated with increased productivity, willingness to continue WFH, and burnout resilience. This effect is fully mediated by satisfaction with the home office. We find that higher home office satisfaction is associated with WFH success and air-quality-improving behavior is associated with higher satisfaction. Our results underline a holistic perspective such that investing in a healthy and objectively measured physical climate is a key aspect of the bright future of working from home. The move from the work office to the home office needs to be accompanied by careful design and investment in the quality of the office and its climate.
摘要：
自COVID-19大流行以来，在家工作(WFH)的受欢迎程度越来越高。关于WFH的生产力影响正在进行辩论，但是家庭办公室的物理气候只受到了有限的关注。本文研究了家庭办公室满意度和环境改善行为对WFH员工生产率和倦怠倾向的影响。我们调查了1000多名荷兰WFH个人，了解他们的家庭办公室和感知的WFH表现。我们拟合逻辑回归和结构方程模型来调查家庭办公室满意度和特征对自我报告生产率的影响，倦怠倾向，并愿意继续WFH。我们的结果表明，WFH生产率的个体差异可以通过物理家庭办公环境中的异质性来解释。对家庭办公室因素的更高满意度与生产率的提高和倦怠趋势的降低显着相关。我们继续证明，工作时间内更多的通风与生产率的提高有关，愿意继续WFH，和倦怠的韧性。这种效果完全是通过对家庭办公室的满意度来调节的。我们发现，较高的家庭办公室满意度与WFH成功有关，而改善空气质量的行为与较高的满意度有关。我们的结果强调了一个整体的观点，即投资于健康和客观衡量的物理气候是在家工作的美好未来的一个关键方面。从工作办公室到家庭办公室的迁移需要伴随着对办公室质量和气候的精心设计和投资。
