ABSTRACT
This study mainly aims to investigate the effects of telework on life satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. The hypothesis this research examines are: (1) the positive relationship between life satisfaction and telework, (2) the optimum point of telework to total working hours exists, (3) telework promotes spending time on housework and childcare. Statistical analysis is mainly conducted, and additionally, machine learning is conducted. As the results, it was found that (1) a positive relationship between life satisfaction and telework is observed, (2) the effect of telework on life satisfaction was the largest in the case of less than 50%, and (3) telework increased the time for housework and childcare clearly in the cases of males. © 2022 ACM.
ABSTRACT
The delta variant is one mutant of COVID-19, which is more transmissible than pre-existing variants of SARS-CoV-2. The Japanese government failed to curve the explosive rise of the infection, and therefore the healthcare system was on the verge of a crisis. This research aims to examine what people think and feel about this situation by using tweets on Twitter. 3,339,002tweets related to terms of Indian variant or delta variant or lambda virus were collected from May 9, 2021, to August 25, 2021. Tweets including terms of virus, infection, vaccine, symptoms have gradually increased. The peak of tweets of fear and anger was early July 2021. Tweets of medical resources and politics & governments surged in August 2021. The fear, anger, and antipathy to the attitude of the Japanese government were observed on Twitter. © 2021 ACM.