Print Email Facebook Twitter How to Alleviate Feelings of Crowding in a Working from Home Environment Title How to Alleviate Feelings of Crowding in a Working from Home Environment: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic Author Park, S.Y. (TU Delft Spatial Planning and Strategy) Newton, C.E.L. (TU Delft Spatial Planning and Strategy) Lee, Rachel (TU Delft History, Form & Aesthetics) Date 2023 Abstract The sudden adoption of working from home (WFH) during the COVID-19 pandemic has required the reconfiguration of home spaces to fit space for remote work into existing spaces already filled with other domestic functions. This resulted in blurring of home and work boundaries, the potential lack of space for telecommuting from home, and telecommuters’ feelings of crowding. Numerous studies have shown the negative effects of crowding feelings on workers’ responses. This study focused on the issue of crowding in the residential workspace. An online survey was conducted to investigate how features of the home workspace correlate with telecommuters’ feelings of crowding and how these feelings affect satisfaction, health, and productivity. As a result, we found that various environmental features of home workspaces (e.g., house size, purpose of workspace, accessible balcony, lighting, noise, etc.), as well as psychological aspects (e.g., individual control over space use), had significant effects on telecommuters’ feelings of crowdedness. It was also found that feelings of crowding in the WFH environment can directly and indirectly affect teleworkers’ satisfaction with work environments, well-being, and work performance. Based on the results, we offered various potential ways to alleviate overcrowding issues in the WFH context. Subject feelings of crowdingworking from homework environmentCOVID-19healthproductivity To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:919ce08a-9233-4696-85d6-1982b8a5a73e DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20021025 ISSN 1660-4601 Source International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20 (2) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2023 S.Y. Park, C.E.L. Newton, Rachel Lee Files PDF ijerph_20_01025.pdf 1.44 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:919ce08a-9233-4696-85d6-1982b8a5a73e/datastream/OBJ/view