Working from home: Boon or bane?

Studies have found that while people became more productive while working from home during the pandemic, communication and collaboration between departments suffered. Photo: dpa

Attending a morning meeting in your pyjamas, doing a spot of yoga at lunchtime, and more time with the family in the evenings: the reality of most people’s experience working from home has little in common with this utopian and perhaps cliched vision.

After 18 months of the pandemic, studies and surveys paint a differentiated picture of the psychological and physical consequences of remote working.