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The Empty Office: Qualitative Survey The Empty Office: Qualitative Survey f4dff0ac-bc17-4269-9e5a-7ca849d9a08610.48573/7yjq-mw80 Vacchiano, Mattia FORSFORSFORS 2026 ArbeitsbedingungenWorking conditionsConditions de travailBeschäftigung und ErwerbstätigkeitEmploymentEmploi Introduction: Teleworking is one of the most significant legacies of the pandemic. Great attention is now being paid to its effects on workers’ health. One of the arguments that emerged on this issue is that ‘working away from the office’ affects the time we spend with significant others. This calls into question all those processes that make relatives and colleagues important to our health, such as forms of mentoring and social support, but also conflicts, work interruptions or control over workers’ activities. So far, no study has evaluated the impact that teleworking has on these processes using data on personal networks. The Empty Office is the first study to use social network analysis to measure the impact that telework has on social relations and, in turn, workers’ health and well-­being. Methods and analysis: The project draws on a total sample of 4400 participants from Switzerland, the Netherlands, Spain, and Germany (n=1100 per country). The choice of these countries is due to their specificity and diversity in socioeconomic features, which make them particularly interesting for studying teleworking from a comparative point of view. The research is conceived as a sequential mixed-­method design. First, quantitative data collection will administer an online questionnaire to gather information on telework modalities, health and well-being markers, and data on personal networks collected by a name generator. A qualitative module, administered one year later, will consist of in-­depth interviews with a subsample (n=32) of teleworkers selected for delving narratively into the mechanisms identified with the quantitative analyses. Ethics and dissemination: This study has obtained 2 years of funding from the Swiss Network for International Study and was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Geneva (CUREG-­ 20230920-­ 292-­ 2). All participants will be asked to provide informed consent to participate in this study. The results will be shared with international organisations and disseminated in scientific journals and conferences. WesteuropaWestern EuropeEurope occidentaleSchweizSwitzerlandSuisseSüdeuropaSouthern EuropeEurope méridionaleSpanienSpainEspagneNiederlandeNetherlandsPays-BasDeutschlandGermanyAllemagneEuropaEuropeEurope Additional data use purposes: Research purposes, Teaching purposes, Education and training purposes, Other non-commercial purposesZusätzliche Datennutzungszwecke: Forschungszwecke, Lehrzwecke, Bildungs- und Ausbilundszwecke, Andere nicht-kommerzielle ZweckeFinalités supplémentaires d’utilisation des données: Fins de recherche, Fins d’enseignement, Fins d’éducation et de formation, Autres fins non commercialesSondergenehmigung: KeineSpecial permission: NonePermission spéciale: Aucune swissubase_3170_1_0 The Empty Office: Qualitative datafile (SPSS) The Empty Office: Qualitative Network Canvas protocole The Empty Office: Qualitative codebook http://www.swissubase.ch/oai-pmh/v1/oai oai:swissubase.ch:f4dff0ac-bc17-4269-9e5a-7ca849d9a086 2026-03-24T12:04:32Z ddi:codebook:2_5