*2.1. Participants*

A sample of 385 individuals was recruited to fill out an online questionnaire. The inclusion criteria were age >18 and being employed. The initial screening led to eliminating 18 participants owing to their failure to complete the whole survey. We retained participants for subsequent analyses if they reported a small number of missing data, which were handled by replacing them with the mean score imputation for each considered variable. The final sample was composed of 367 individuals, aged from 20 to 68 (*M* = 37.84, *SD* = 10.39), almost equally distributed between the two genders, mostly married, and with higher education. Almost half of them (47.1%) declared not to have children, whereas the remaining (52.9%) reported having from one to five children. Participants were asked to indicate how/where they had been working during the last year (work remotely only/work remotely, but also at the workplace/work at the workplace, but also remotely/work at the workplace only), and to report the extent to which their working conditions changed after the spread of the pandemic (from "Not at all" to "Very much"). They were also asked to specify which (if any) working conditions changed, choosing the suited answers among multiple alternatives (salary increase/salary decrease, working hours increase/working hours decrease, kind of job activity, layoff, relationships with coworkers and supervisors) (see Table 1 for a more detailed description of the study sample).


**Table 1.** Descriptive statistics of the study sample.
