Constance Homeoffice Study

For many employees, the Corona crisis has led to significant changes in their everyday working lives, with private and public organizations sending all or part of their staff to working from home or other remote work settings. In our "Konstanz Homeoffice Study" we want to understand how this social experiment affects employees and companies. Therefore we have started to survey a representative sample of German employees since March 2020, since now on ten measurement waves. Our primary focus is to understand how working from home affects employee engagement and productivity on the positive side, as well as increased emotional exhaustion and loneliness as a challenge of continually working remotely. Furthermore, we also aim at understanding how companies and leaders can tailor the work environment to allow a sustainable transformation to a more flexible workplace. This page offers an overview of the study's output and publication, as well as the press coverage. You can also find further information on the private webpage of Prof. Kunze

Key Findings

Interviews with Professor Kunze on key findings of the Constance Homeoffice Study

https://www.3sat.de/kultur/kulturzeit/sendung-vom-14-februar-2022-100.html

https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/artour/bleibt-uns-das-homeoffice-erhalten/mdr-fernsehen/Y3JpZDovL21kci5kZS9iZWl0cmFnL2Ntcy8wYTMyMzgxMS1kMzdkLTQ4ND

https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/radio/flexibel-fuer-immer-wird-das-home-office-zum-arbeitsmodell-100.html

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/forscher-florian-kunze-homeoffice-100.html

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/homeoffice-gefragt-studie-der-uni-konstanz-9f17952f-0cdd-4cf4-b04e-52e4b744e-a89583dc-100.html 

https://ondemand-mp3.dradio.de/file/dradio/2021/02/11/bueroangestellte_fuerchten_infektion_berechtigterweise_dlf_20210211_1350_06f8498d.mp3

https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/friedrichshafen/forscher-uni-konstanz-warnen-vor-praesenzarbeit-100.html

https://www.aachener-nachrichten.de/wissenschaft/universitaet-konstanz-homeoffice-rueckkehrer-sich-weniger-belastbar_aid-56197279

https://www.schwaebische.de/ueberregional/wirtschaft_artikel,-fehlende-computer-oder-engstirnige-arbeitgeber-woran-scheitert-homeoffice-_arid,11328850.html

https://www.n-tv.de/leben/Einsam-im-Home-office-und-nun-article22366981.html

https://www.suedkurier.de/region/skonair/suedkurier-talk/die-konstanzer-home-office-studie-ueber-die-chancen-und-gefahren-der-arbeit-von-zu-hause;sts1370646,16364

https://www.meinungsbarometer.info/beitrag/Nachhaltige-Transformation-der-Arbeitswelt-durch-Corona_3816.html

https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/eine_starke_transformation_der_arbeitswelt?nav_id=9165

https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/friedrichshafen/studie-uni-konstanz-homeoffice-100.html

https://www.swr.de/swr2/wissen/arbeiten-allein-zu-haus-was-bringt-das-homeoffice-swr2-wissen-2020-09-03-100.html

Constance Homeoffice Study in the press