Couples who work from home do not have same experience: Study

According to two related studies of workers in China and South Korea, working from home may be a better deal for husbands than wives in some ways in dual-earner couples. The research showed that both husbands and wives completed more family-related tasks when they worked from home versus the office. However, when wives worked from home, husbands completed fewer family tasks than when their wives worked in the office. Wives did not complete fewer tasks when husbands worked from home. In addition, wives in both studies felt increased guilt about failing to accomplish housework and spending time with their families when they did more work at the office. In men, that result was found in one study.