TY - JOUR T1 - Working from home in the time of COVID-19: how to best preserve occupational health? JF - Occupational and Environmental Medicine JO - Occup Environ Med SP - 509 LP - 510 DO - 10.1136/oemed-2020-106599 VL - 77 IS - 7 AU - Hanifa Bouziri AU - David R M Smith AU - Alexis Descatha AU - William Dab AU - Kevin Jean Y1 - 2020/07/01 UR - http://oem.bmj.com/content/77/7/509.abstract N2 - In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries have adopted a broad spectrum of containment measures, from recommendations to stay at home to quarantines of large geographic regions. As part of this response, corporations and governments alike have strongly encouraged workers to telecommute where possible. More than 3.4 billion people in 84 countries have been confined to their homes, as estimated in late March 2020, which potentially translates to many millions of workers temporarily exposed to telecommuting. Since 2000, the emergence of digital and broadband internet has facilitated the development of home telework. Despite limited research interest on its impact on occupational health, several health benefits and risks of telework have been identified in academic or grey literature (table 1) (for a review see Ref. 1). … ER -