Working from home during COVID-19: A study of the interruption landscape.

Boundary violations increased exponentially in the context of mandatory telework during COVID-19 and had a negative impact on well-being.

“These violations can occur from work-to-family (e.g., answer a phone call from the boss after shift work) or family-to-work (e.g., help a child perform schoolwork during shift work) and they increased exponentially in the context of mandatory telework during COVID-19 with a negative impact on the well-being [12, 20–23].”

The fact that women mostly assumed the family role increased the number of work-to-family violations, which adversely affected their recovery.

“Thus, the fact that women mostly assumed the family role increased the number of violations from work-to-family, which adversely affected their recovery [20, 22].”

Boundary violations impair psychological detachment.

“Thus, boundary violations can be considered to impair psychological detachment, which is most likely because they keep work mentally present or because they reduce the time allocated to leisure and rest activities that allow recovery from the expenditure of resources [22, 32, 33].”

Boundary violations impair psychological detachment because they keep work mentally present.

“Thus, boundary violations can be considered to impair psychological detachment, which is most likely because they keep work mentally present or because they reduce the time allocated to leisure and rest activities that allow recovery from the expenditure of resources [22, 32, 33].”

The difference in mediation by direction may have occurred because data collection occurred during confinement, when the whole family was forced to stay at home, increasing stress and boundary violations, especially involving the family at work.

“This difference may have occurred because the data collection occurred during confinement, a period in which the whole family was forced to stay at home, making this the stage for school, work and play activities, increasing stress, namely boundaries violations, especially involving the family at work [7, 22, 48].”

Boundary violations impair psychological detachment because they reduce the time allocated to leisure and rest activities that allow recovery.

“Thus, boundary violations can be considered to impair psychological detachment, which is most likely because they keep work mentally present or because they reduce the time allocated to leisure and rest activities that allow recovery from the expenditure of resources [22, 32, 33].”