Abstract
Working from home has hardly taken root in Japan. However, emergency declaration against COVID-19 forced many workers to work from home. Several surveys have examined the “productivity” of those workers, but the results have varied. This paper examines and analyzes 567 samples of workers who worked from home during the emergency declaration, and investigation the situation and related factors of “subjective productivity”, which is the self-assessment of productivity of working from home. Age, presence of children, and readiness for working from home were found to be related to subjective productivity. The frequency of working from home after the state of emergency was lifted, as well as desire and possibility, were found to be related to subjective productivity.
