Job stress and loneliness among desk workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: focus on remote working.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan (R2-079). Informed consent was obtained from all participants. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Availability of data and materialNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no conflict of interest. FundingThis study was supported and partly funded by the University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan (no grant number), the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (H30-josei-ippan-002, H30-roudou-ippan-007, 19JA1004, 20JA1006, 210301-1, and 20HB1004), Anshin Zaidan (no grant number), the Collabo-Health Study Group (no grant number), Hitachi Systems Ltd. (no grant number), and scholarship donations from Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (no grant numbers). The funders were not involved in the design of the study, the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, the writing of the article, or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Authors’ contributionsF.M. conceived the research questions. All the authors designed the research protocol, developed the questionnaire and conducted the research. F.M. performed the statistical analysis and drafted the initial manuscript with T.I. and C.O. All the authors revised and approved the final manuscript. AcknowledgementsThe current members of the CORoNaWork Project, in alphabetical order, are: Dr. Hajime Ando, Prof. Hisashi Eguchi, Prof. Yoshihisa Fujino (present chairperson of the study group), Dr. Kazunori Ikegami, Dr. Arisa Harada, Dr. Ayako Hino, Dr. Tomohiro Ishimaru, Dr. Kyoko Kitagawa, Ms. Ning Liu, Dr. Kosuke Mafune, Prof. Shinya Matsuda, Dr. Ryutaro Matsugaki, Prof. Koji Mori, Dr. Keiji Muramatsu, Dr. Masako Nagata, Dr. Tomohisa Nagata, Prof. Akira Ogami, Dr. Rie Tanaka, Dr. Seiishiro Tateishi, Dr. Kei Tokutsu, and Prof. Mayumi Tsuji. All members are affiliated with the University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan. Competing interests The authors declare no conflict of interest."

"Funding This study was supported and partly funded by the University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan (no grant number), the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (H30-josei-ippan-002, H30-roudou-ippan-007, 19JA1004, 20JA1006, 210301-1, and 20HB1004), Anshin Zaidan (no grant number), the Collabo-Health Study Group (no grant number), Hitachi Systems Ltd. (no grant number), and scholarship donations from Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (no grant numbers). The funders were not involved in the design of the study, the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, the writing of the article, or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication."