Work from home song
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We find that about 31% of jobs in Germany could be almost entirely performed from home while a substantial amount of tasks can be performed from home in 12% of jobs. This new teleworkability index is the first to differentiate between fully teleworkable, partly teleworkable and on-site jobs. We exploit information on i) the share of employees in an occupation who report that WFH is not possible and ii) the types of tasks performed on the job. First, to evaluate the labour market effects of the crisis, we construct a novel index that estimates working-from-home feasibility at a detailed occupational level using representative data on tasks and working conditions in Germany. We contribute to recent evidence on the unequal effect of the COVID-19 crisis across gender and parenthood status in several ways. Nevertheless, parents, and especially mothers, could benefit from the increased availability of WFH arrangements thanks to changes in technology and firm culture in the post-COVID-19 era (Alon et al., 2020a).
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However, during the lockdown, many parents have to combine paid work and full-time childcare, which is likely to reduce their productivity and the expected benefits of WFH. 1 Working from home (WFH) has long been considered a means of improving work-life balance, especially for parents. Indeed, since the start of the social distancing measures, many firms have made it possible for their employees to work from home in order to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. These numbers have increased dramatically during the COVID-19 lockdown, although differently across demographic groups. In 2018, the share of employees working at least regularly from home was around 12% in Germany, above 30% in the Netherlands, Finland, Iceland, Luxembourg and Denmark, and around or below 5% in Greece, Italy, Bulgaria and Romania (Eurostat, 2020). It has notably increased the share of people working from home, creating an unexpected shock to the number of people working remotely instead of on-site. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the way many people work. We construct a novel teleworkability index that differentiates between fully teleworkable, partly teleworkable and on-site jobs and find that in about a third of households the COVID-19 shock is likely to induce shifts in the intra-household allocation of tasks from mothers to fathers.
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We discuss the likely effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender gaps in the labour market and at home in light of recent empirical findings and novel statistics on the heterogeneous structure of work arrangements among couples. Yet, the need to simultaneously care for children during the COVID-19 lockdown may also revive traditional gender roles, potentially counteracting such gains. Given existing research on the effects of working from home on hours worked and wages, an increased availability of working from home may provide a chance for women to catch up with their male counterparts. As the COVID-19 pandemic causes a record number of people to work from home, this disruptive event will likely have a long-lasting impact on work arrangements.