COVID-19, work from home and the organization of work time for men and women in the United States

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, José Ignacio Giménez-Nadal and Almudena Sevilla

Chapter Chapter 10 in Handbook on Inequality and COVID-19, 2025, pp 151-166 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the organization of work time using 24-hour diary data from the American Time Use Survey. We document large increases in the incidence of work from home (WFH) following the COVID-19 outbreak, with prior selectivity into WFH disappearing. Both men and women working remotely tended to work less and experience more interruptions compared to in-office employees before the pandemic. Interestingly, the prevalence of remote work in various occupations seemed to reduce work interruptions and decrease the likelihood of non-standard work hours among men before the pandemic, pointing to its productivity-enhancing potential. However, remote workers in those environments continued to experience work interruptions and be more prone to labour during non-standard work schedules compared to their in-office counterparts. Nevertheless, the role of remote work in these occupations largely disappeared during the pandemic as remote work became a more standard arrangement.

Keywords: Work from home; Remote work; COVID-19; Work organization; U.S. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035302758
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781035302765.00017 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 403 Forbidden

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:22022_10

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jack Sweeney ().