Life Satisfaction and Telework during COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan

Abstract

This study mainly aims to investigate the effects of telework on life satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. The hypothesis this research examines are: (1) the positive relationship between life satisfaction and telework, (2) the optimum point of telework to total working hours exists, (3) telework promotes spending time on housework and childcare. Statistical analysis is mainly conducted, and additionally, machine learning is conducted. As the results, it was found that (1) a positive relationship between life satisfaction and telework is observed, (2) the effect of telework on life satisfaction was the largest in the case of less than 50%, and (3) telework increased the time for housework and childcare clearly in the cases of males.