Multiple exposure under COVID-19: home office and housework

The exit restrictions issued in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic offer the unique opportunity to examine the effect of home office arrangements on the distribution of unpaid work in households. Working from home is often described as a mechanism that makes it easier for women to combine childcare and work. Whether and to what extent this is the case has not yet been systematically investigated in Austria. To collect the relevant data, an online survey is carried out among Viennese people and examines how home office affects the distribution of unpaid work in households and what proportion of unpaid work in households with children under 15 is performed by mothers, even if one second parent is at home due to home office, unemployment or short-time work.