ArticleAnnals of work exposures and health2023
Hybrid office work in women and men: do directly measured physical behaviors differ between days working from home and days working at the office?
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- The impact of working from home on sedentary behaviour and physical activity compared to onsite work in the working population: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- The associations of sedentary behaviour and physical activity with musculoskeletal symptoms in hybrid office workers: a compositional data analysis.BMC public health · 2026Article
- More sedentary behavior and lower physical activity levels in pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Does accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary time differ between manual, in-office, hybrid and remote workers?Occupational and environmental medicine · 2025Article
- Factors influencing reducing sedentary time in home office employees.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Comparison of sedentary time, number of steps and sit-to-stand-transitions of desk-based workers in different office environments including working from home: analysis of quantitative accelerometer data from the cross-sectional part of the SITFLEX Study.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2025Article
- Are we working (too) comfortably?: the systematic development of an intervention to support workers to move more while working at home.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectiveWe investigated and compared temporal sitting patterns among male and female hybrid office workers when working at the office (WAO), working from home (WFH), and for non-working days (NWD).
methodsWe analyzed data collected in 2020 among 165 hybrid office workers, carrying thigh-worn accelerometers for 938 days in total. Day type (WAO, WFH, or NWD) and time in bed were identified using diaries. Time awake was exhaustively classified as non-sitting time and time sitting in short, moderate, and long bouts. Effects of day type and gender on the 24-h compositions of physical behaviors were analyzed using multilevel linear mixed models.
resultsDuring workdays (both WAO and WFH), workers spent less time in bed and more time sitting, particularly in moderate and long bouts, than during NWD. Time in bed was longer when working from home than when working at the office, and more of the awake time was spent sitting. Differences between WAO and WFH in ratios between short, moderate, and long bouts of sitting were small and inconsistent. Men spent more time sitting than women, and more time in moderate and long sitting bouts relative to short bouts.
conclusionsWhen working from home, hybrid office workers sat more during their hours awake compared to when working at the office. Sitting time was larger during working days than during non-working days and was higher in men than in women. These results may contribute to support organizational policies for hybrid work.
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