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Annu Haapakangas1, Annina Ropponen, Elina Tulenheimo-Eklund
1From the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland (A.H., A.R., E.T.-E., V.R., K.R.); Division of Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (A.R.); and Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (K.R.).
Objective:
To investigate perceived task privacy in 2022 associated with short (1-3 days) self-certified sickness absence (SA) in 2023.
Methods:
A prospective cohort of 1400 Finnish office workers with survey data in 2022 about, for example, task privacy, telework, and office type were linked with employer-owned register data of SA in 2022-2023. Poisson regression models were used to obtain risk ratios with 95% confidence intervals.
Results:
Each one-unit increase in task privacy was associated with a less likely short SA (risk ratio, 0.83-0.89; 95% confidence interval, 0.74-0.97), also across the amount of telework in 2022. The association was only statistically significant in activity-based offices.
Conclusions:
Each one-unit increase in perceived task privacy at the office was associated with less likely short, self-certified, 1-3 days SA. Task privacy is an important factor to be considered in offices.
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