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This scoping review examined how the management of occupational spaces at home during the COVID-19 pandemic temporarily became of concern. We consider the case of working-from-home (WfH), analyzing publications indexed in the Web of Science database as a reliable sample of accounts on how spaces shaped and were shaped by WfH. Studies connecting WfH and COVID-19, published between March 2020 and April 2022, were identified and explored through network analysis. From these studies, 14 publications referring to spaces are examined as examples of how people attached meaning to spaces in light of their occupation. A similar analysis was conducted on a control group of papers published between May 2022 and April 2024 to understand whether scholars have retrospectively reassessed these dynamics. The findings reveal that space occupies a marginal position in network analysis. The papers considering home spaces devoted to work include a concern with the size of spaces, the effects of sharing spaces on inequality and gender relations, the impact of space constraints on ergonomics and health issues, and the importance of effective space management. The latter is intimately related to the tendency to redefine work as occupation.
Țălnar-Naghi et al. (Mon,) studied this question.