In the opening months of 2020, COVID-19 changed the way for which people work, forcing more people to work from home. This research investigates the impact of COVID-19 on five researchers’ work and private roles, happiness, and mobile and desktop activity patterns. Desktop and smartphone application usage were gathered before and during COVID-19. Individuals’ roles and happiness were captured through experience sampling. Our analysis show that researchers tend to work more during COVID-19 resulting an imbalance of work and private roles. We also found that as working styles and patterns as well as individual behaviour changed, reported valence distribution was less varied in the later weeks of the pandemic when compared to the start. This shows a resilient adaptation to the disruption caused by the pandemic.
@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2007-12353,
archiveprefix = {arXiv},
author = {Sam Nolan and
Shakila Khan Rumi and
Christoph Anderson and
Klaus David and
Flora D. Salim},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/corr/abs-2007-12353.bib},
eprint = {2007.12353},
journal = {CoRR},
timestamp = {Wed, 29 Jul 2020 01:00:00 +0200},
title = {Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Social Roles and Emotions
while Working from Home},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12353},
volume = {abs/2007.12353},
year = {2020}
}
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