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A Systematic Review of How Remote Work Affects Workplace Stress and Mental Health

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Since the Coronavirus outbreak started, remote work has been an emerging phenomenon now more than ever. Unfortunately, with the emergence of remote work, mental health issues and increased stress levels have emerged as well. Teleworking has a significant emotional impact on employees as reports of negative emotions such as loneliness, irritation, worry, and guilt were more apparent than with office-workers (Mann and Holdsworth in N Technol Work Employ 18:196–211 [15]). In this paper, a systematic literature review of various scientific research papers have been conducted regarding the mentioned phenomenon by using the keywords; “Remote Work”, “Work from Home”, “Stress”, and “Mental Health” in three different databases; Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. The analysis shown in the upcoming sections of this paper were performed by using software tools such as Harzing’s Publish or Perish to obtain the Metadata from Google Scholar, MAXQDA to obtain the word cloud that shows the most frequent terms in the articles analyzed, VOSviewer to obtain co-occurrence and co-citation cluster diagrams, Citespace to obtain the cluster analysis and citation burst, Vicinitas to obtain the emergence and engagement indicators, and Mendeley to generate a reference list for the articles used in this paper. After conducting the systematic literature review shown in this paper, it can be concluded that remote work has a direct impact on developing mental health issues and increased stress. Therefore, since this is an emerging issue, more research needs to be done to identify the exact reasons for the increased stress levels in individuals that work from home.

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  1. School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

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  2. Human-Computer Interaction Center, Aachen University, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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  3. Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Pei-Luen Patrick Rau

  4. International School of Technology and Management, Feng Chia University, Taiwan, China

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Guidarini, C., Hussaein, O. (2023). A Systematic Review of How Remote Work Affects Workplace Stress and Mental Health. In: Duffy, V.G., Ziefle, M., Rau, PL.P., Tseng, M.M. (eds) Human-Automation Interaction. Automation, Collaboration, & E-Services, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10788-7_5

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