Cecilia Onn is a project manager in Haninge municipality and, like many others, has worked from home since March. A Sifo survey commissioned by Tele2 showed that the proportion who worked from home had risen from 15 to 57 percent in May. At Blocket, sales of used desks increased by almost 270 percent during the period April-June compared with the same period last year.

Cecilia Onn builds her own height-adjustable desk with the help of a dictionary on the terrace in Tyresö.

- When it rains, it is not possible to be here because then it sounds something terrible, she says.

A special keyboard will relieve the pain she has contracted in her elbow.

- I concentrate better at home but I have got a mouse arm that hurts really unfortunately, says Cecilia Onn.

The key lies in communication

In a membership survey conducted by the trade union Unionen, 59 percent of domestic workers answer that the physical work environment has deteriorated. Of those who have not worked from home at all, only three percent experience such a deterioration.

According to the Swedish Work Environment Authority, the key to a good work environment lies in good communication between manager and employees.

- If you can create a good and safe work environment at home, there is in itself no work environment risk that the work is conducted there, says Boel Callermo, unit manager at the Swedish Work Environment Authority.

Tegnell believes in more homework in general

In a Novus survey among 500 academics conducted by the academic association SSR, as many as eight out of ten say that they also want to be able to work from home in the future, at least to some extent. This is despite the fact that a majority of the respondents stated that their work environment had deteriorated both physically, socially and organisationally.

Whether there will be any change in the Public Health Agency's recommendation that those who can work at home depends to a large extent on the development of the spread of infection and what the load on public transport looks like.

- I think we will continue to work more from home in general, says Anders Tegnell, state epidemiologist at the Swedish Public Health Agency.