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Precarious Work and Health

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Occupational Safety and Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (24 June 2023) | Viewed by 4010

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Jin-Ha Yoon

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Department of Preventive Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
Interests: occupational health; informal worker; gig economy worker; child labor
Dr. Wanhyung Lee

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Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Gil Medical Center, Gachon University College of Medicine, Incheon 21565, Republic of Korea
Interests: occupational epidemiology; big data analysis; health promotion
Dr. Dong-Wook Lee

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Public Helathcare Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul 03080, Republic of Korea
Interests: remote workers; long working hours; environmental health; digital healthcare

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With the coming of COVID-19 and the accompanying policies, such as lockdowns and movement restrictions, people's working conditions have changed significantly from their traditional jobs. Many companies have been affected by COVID-19 and have changed workplaces, using remote work commonly. Another of the hottest issues in working diversity is digital platform labor, known as gig economy. Correspondingly, the physical and mental conditions of employees have been improved, but some conditions have led to reduced work efficiency. Many businesses struggle with how to balance this issue. Working diversity policies are widespread in new workplaces such as food delivery, housekeeping, replacement driving, and IT services, etc. Non-standardized working environments may increase the diversity of work, and those phenomena present both opportunities and challenges to workers. The advantages of gig economy might be the opportunity and flexibility of the work, while precarity and unilateral structure would be the disadvantages. 

Those workers usually receive inferior benefits compared to standard workers in terms of compensation, working hours and employment security, and are known as precarious workers. A precarious worker includes a temporary worker, an on-call worker, remote/home worker, or a gig economy worker, etc. Despite the rapid increase in precarious workers, the health effects related to their work have rarely been studied. Important issues regarding chronic diseases and mental illnesses with consideration of working characteristics and diversity should be discussed to address problems of precarious workers and figure out how to solve them. The working diversity and work health of precarious workers will become hot issues in the future. 

This Special Issue aims to showcase the diversity of precarious work, including work content, work style, workplace, and other related content, so that workers can have a healthier work experience, and help the development of work content and work styles around the world. 

Dr. Jin-Ha Yoon
Dr. Wanhyung Lee
Dr. Dong-Wook Lee
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • precarious work
  • gig economy work
  • remote work
  • temporary work

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Teleworking Is Significantly Associated with Anxiety Symptoms and Sleep Disturbances among Paid Workers in the COVID-19 Era
by Minji Kim, Inho Park, Hyojin An, Byungyoon Yun and Jin-Ha Yoon
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(2), 1488; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20021488 - 13 Jan 2023
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Due to social distancing during COVID-19, teleworking has spread in Korea. Accordingly, the effects of teleworking on physical and mental health have emerged. We aim to determine the association between teleworking and mental health, including anxiety symptoms and sleep disturbance, in paid workers. [...] Read more.
Due to social distancing during COVID-19, teleworking has spread in Korea. Accordingly, the effects of teleworking on physical and mental health have emerged. We aim to determine the association between teleworking and mental health, including anxiety symptoms and sleep disturbance, in paid workers. The data of paid workers from the Sixth Korean Working Conditions Survey, collected between October 2020 and April 2021, were analyzed. Gender stratification analysis and propensity score matching were performed for variables relevant to sociodemographic and occupational characteristics. Adjusted odds ratios (AORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for each sex were analyzed using multivariable logistic regression, adjusting for sociodemographic and occupational characteristics. Among 28,633 participants, analyses were performed for anxiety symptoms (teleworkers vs. non-teleworkers; men: 12.1% vs. 4.9%; women: 13.5% vs. 5.3%) and sleep disturbance (men: 33.6% vs. 21.3%; women: 39.7% vs. 25.3%). In male teleworkers, the AORs for anxiety symptoms and sleep disturbance were 1.86 (95% CI: 1.14–3.04) and 1.52 (95% CI: 1.10–2.11), respectively. In female teleworkers, the AORs for anxiety symptoms and sleep disturbance were 1.66 (95% CI: 1.13–2.43) and 1.65 (95% CI: 1.28–2.14), respectively. Our results emphasize the importance of mental health and the need for continuous education and care for teleworkers, given the rapid increase in teleworking. Full article
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The Association between Replacement Drivers and Depressive Symptoms
by Jongmin Lee, Heejoo Park, Juyeon Oh, Juho Sim, Chorom Lee, Yangwook Kim, Byungyoon Yun and Jin-Ha Yoon
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(1), 575; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010575 - 29 Dec 2022
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A replacement driver is a type of gig worker who provides driving services to the target point with the drunk driver’s own car. This study aimed to examine the association of replacement drivers (ref: paid workers) with depressive symptoms. Information on replacement drivers [...] Read more.
A replacement driver is a type of gig worker who provides driving services to the target point with the drunk driver’s own car. This study aimed to examine the association of replacement drivers (ref: paid workers) with depressive symptoms. Information on replacement drivers was collected through online/offline surveys. Data from the 8th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey were applied to construct the control group. The Patient Health Questionnaire-9; ≥5 points was defined as depressive symptoms. Adjusted odds ratios (aOR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated by performing multivariable logistic regression analysis. The mean age of replacement drivers was 56.11. The prevalence of depressive symptoms in replacement drivers and controls were 49.63% and 12.64%, respectively. Replacement drivers showed a higher association with depressive symptoms than paid workers (aOR 7.89, 95% CI [5.53–11.26]). This relationship was prominent in the older, low-education, and low-income groups. Linear discriminant analysis was the most effective in predicting depressive symptoms among the machine learning models. Using the replacement driver feature increased the AUC values of the models. Given the strong association between depressive symptoms and replacement drivers, in-depth studies to establish guidelines to prevent mental diseases among replacement drivers are required. Full article
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