Factors Affecting Physical and Mental Health of Working From Home (WFH) Employees: Basis for a Wellness Program for a Holding Company

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the concept of traditional working from home. The quick transition to full-time WFH significantly affected the employees' well-being. This study focused on the effect of the lifestyle and home environment, occupational environment, and home office environment on the employees? physical and mental health or well-being who are working from home full time due to the pandemic. This quantitative study utilized an online survey distributed to all employees of a Holding Company using google forms. Purposive sampling was used to select the 100 sample respondents based on the computed sample size using G-Power application. For the data analysis, descriptive statistics was used to describe the variables and simple regression was conducted to test the hypotheses. The results of this study showed that lifestyle and home environment and occupational environment had significant effect on physical well-being of the employees WFH while home office environment had no significant effect. For the mental well-being, lifestyle and home environment and home office environment had significant effect while occupational environment had no significant effect. Also, there was an average changes in the physical and mental well-being status of the employees WFH compared to pre-pandemic work arrangement. This study was able to identified factors that significantly affect workers' physical and mental well-being and established the framework for thinking about how to best create a great WFH experience. As such, this study intended to develop a CAPSTONE Project in a form of a holistic wellness program and working from home guidelines to ensure and promote the well-being of the employees working remotely.