Researchers working from home: Benefits and challenges

The goal of repository is to collect the data, and data preprocessing and analysis scripts needed to reproduce the results of the study titled Researchers working from home: Benefits and challenges (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249127).

Folder structure

Main study

  • The source data (data directly downloaded from Qualtrics) are not shared as our survey included a free-text comment option and the name of the institution the respondents are affiliated with. However, the HomeOffice_Main_Source_Raw.Rmd file contains all the program code that was used to transform the source data to raw data. The raw datafile (Data/Raw/HomeOffice_Main_Raw_data.tsv) contains the data of all main questions unmodified. The raw and the processed datafiles of the main study can be found in the Data/Main/ folder.
  • The HomeOffice_Main_Raw_Processed.Rmd in the root folder file contains the program code to transform the raw data to processed data.
  • The main study’s analysis script can be found in the HomeOffice_Main_Analysis.Rmd file.
  • The dataset can be explored interactively by running the HomeOffice_Main_Report.Rmd file locally.
  • The Figures/ folder contains all the figures created during the analysis.

Pilot study

  • Similarly to the main analysis, the source data of the pilot study cannot be shared in order to maintain anonymity. The code used to transform the source data to raw data for the pilot study can be found in the HomeOffice_Pilot_Source_Raw.Rmd file.
  • The processed data for the pilot study can be reporoduced by running the code in the HomeOffice_Pilot_Raw_Processed.Rmd file.
  • The analysis of the pilot study can be reproduced by running the code in the HomeOffice_Pilot_Analysis.Rmd file.

Other files

  • The HomeOffice_Sampling.Rmd file contains the code that we used to select the batches of email addresses we contacted during the study. We cannot share the list of email addresses.
  • The R/ folder contains the custom functions that are necessary to reproduce the data preprocessing and the results.