A recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research has found that the shift to remote work in response to the coronavirus has damaged people's work-life balance, as the average work day has grow longer, according to the Washington Post. An examination of 3.1 million workers has found that, on average, the workday is about 48.5 minutes longer. But the Post noted that Jeffrey Polzer, a Harvard Business School professor and one of the paper’s co-authors, said that just because the workday is longer does not necessarily mean that people are working more hours, as they may be taking time out of their day to do things like take care of household chores or care for children or elderly parents.

Another finding is that workers are having more meetings, about 13 percent more, since the lockdowns began. At the same time, however, these meetings appear to be getting shorter, with the time spent in meetings falling by 11.5 percent, or nearly 20 minutes per day.

These results call to mind earlier studies showing similar results with regard to remote workers. A poll last year of about 500 people found that remote employees work about 1.4 days more per month than those at the office; similar findings in 2013 by Gallup found that remote workers log in about four more hours per week than those who work at an office. .