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Perception of the Effects of Working from Home on Isolation and Stress by Spanish Workers during COVID-19 Pandemic

Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(2), 65; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12020065
by Jorge De Andres-Sanchez 1,*, Angel Belzunegui-Eraso 1,* and Mar Souto-Romero 2
Reviewer 1:
Sanda Rasic
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(2), 65; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12020065
Submission received: 23 December 2022 / Revised: 20 January 2023 / Accepted: 23 January 2023 / Published: 26 January 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rethinking Home Office, Digitalizedwork and Work-Family Interface)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The paper looks promising and complies with the literature well.

Still, there are some modifications to be done.

1. Line 9. Instead of the word "Information" better to use "Information technology"

2.    Line 32. In the sentence  "…which embedded workers…" embedded should be changed with another expression "…for workers…."

3.      The parenthesis should be put at the end of the citations: Line 36.  (Baruch, 2001; Beauregard et al., 35 2019); Line 37. (Bailey & Kurland, 2002); Line 42. …(Gschwind & Vargas, 41 2019) etc.

4.      Line 38. "…this fact did not come in many…"  should be changed into     "...this trend did not come true in many…" or "…it did not happen in many…"

5.      Line 54. "…lreast…" should be corrected into "…least…"

6.      Line 84. "…Compliment…"  should be corrected into "…complement…"

7.      Figure 2. – authors should put parentheses (work-family balance)…

8.      Line 120. "…in dependent persons…" should be changed into "…of dependent persons…" or "…in the care of dependent persons…"

9.      Line 128.-130. The sentence is not clear and should be modified “The existence of children in households increases the difficulty of fitting work and family because these last obligations, growth, and spaces in home and ICT resources must be red with more persons (Fana et al., 2020.) „

10.   Line 158. This part of the sentence is not properly written “…it is not clear what the sign of the influence is...”

11.   Line 169. Explain the variable „cultural status“ in hypotheses 1.4.and 2.4.

12.   Line 231.-232. Hypothesis 1.7. Perceiving that ITCs allowed developing professional activities adequately during the COVID-19 pandemic is negatively linked with the perception that telework produces stress. Instead of the word „developing“ we suggest using term „conducting“.

13.   Line 249. Explain what is the meaning of the expression „Firms that are compromised,…? Do you mean “Firms that are compromised with telecommuting…”?

14.   Line 284. word “who“ should be added. "…who has less influence…."

15.   Line 336. "...satisfaction (negatively)..." - parenthesis is missing

16.   Line 369. and Line 377. The expression ”It was complained of within…“ is not clear and should be changed. Do you mean „It was collected (conducted, completed) of within…"

Author Response

The paper looks promising and complies with the literature well.

Thanks a lot for your comments that have greatly improved the paper.

Still, there are some modifications to be done.

  1. Line 9. Instead of the word "Information" better to use "Information technology"

We have done so (see yellow highlighted)

  1. Line 32. In the sentence "…which embedded workers…" embedded should be changed with another expression "…for workers…."

We have done so (see yellow highlighted)

  1. The parenthesis should be put at the end of the citations: Line 36. (Baruch, 2001; Beauregard et al., 35 2019); Line 37. (Bailey & Kurland, 2002); Line 42. …(Gschwind & Vargas, 41 2019) etc.

It was a typo throughout the paper. We have solved it.

  1. Line 38. "…this fact did not come in many…" should be changed into     "...this trend did not come true in many…" or "…it did not happen in many…"

We have done so (see yellow highlighted)

  1. Line 54. "…lreast…" should be corrected into "…least…"

We have done so (see yellow highlighted)

  1. Line 84. "…Compliment…" should be corrected into "…complement…"

We have rewritten that line (see yellow highlighted)

  1. Figure 2. – authors should put parentheses (work-family balance)…

We have revised it.

  1. Line 120. "…in dependent persons…" should be changed into "…of dependent persons…" or "…in the care of dependent persons…"

We have done so (see yellow highlighted)

  1. Line 128.-130. The sentence is not clear and should be modified “The existence of children in households increases the difficulty of fitting work and family because these last obligations, growth, and spaces in home and ICT resources must be red with more persons (Fana et al., 2020.) „

We have rewritten that line (see yellow highlighted)

  1. Line 158. This part of the sentence is not properly written “…it is not clear what the sign of the influence is...”

We have rewritten that line (see yellow highlighted)

  1. Line 169. Explain the variable „cultural status“ in hypotheses 1.4.and 2.4.

We have changed “cultural status” by “academic level” that was exposed in the development of these hypotheses.

  1. Line 231.-232. Hypothesis 1.7. Perceiving that ITCs allowed developing professional activities adequately during the COVID-19 pandemic is negatively linked with the perception that telework produces stress. Instead of the word „developing“ we suggest using term „conducting“.

We have done so (see yellow highlighted)

  1. Line 249. Explain what is the meaning of the expression „Firms that are compromised,…? Do you mean “Firms that are compromised with telecommuting…”?

We have rewritten that line (see yellow highlighted)

  1. Line 284. word “who“ should be added. "…who has less influence…."

We have done so (see yellow highlighted)

  1. Line 336. "...satisfaction (negatively)..." - parenthesis is missing

We have solved this problem

  1. Line 369. and Line 377. The expression ”It was complained of within…“ is not clear and should be changed. Do you mean „It was collected (conducted, completed) of within…"

We have rewritten that line (see yellow highlighted)

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

-Would reccomend to shorten the  title

-would reccomend to use only work from home as a term, and to omit others, like telework 

-would  reccomend to include recent articles dealing with similar topic, like Kohont and Ignjatovic, 2022 or  Nakresoine et al., 2019.

Author Response

Thanks a lot for your comments on the paper that clearly have improved it.

-Would reccomend to shorten the  title

We have done so. From 23 words it now has 18 words.

-would reccomend to use only work from home as a term, and to omit others, like telework 

We have introduced this term throughout the work instead teleworking/telecommuting (it supposed more than 100 replacements. It also includes tittle and abstract (in the places see blue highlighted).

-would  reccomend to include recent articles dealing with similar topic, like Kohont and Ignjatovic, 2022 or  Nakresoine et al., 2019.

Thanks a lot for giving us these references. We have included these references throughout the paper (see blue highlighted).

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

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