COVID 19: Working from home: Twitter reveals why we're embracing it

As more than a third of the world's population is now in lock-down, we see COVID-19 not only having severe implications on people's health but also having a significant knock-on effect on their livelihoods A recent YouGov report highlights that one in twenty people in the UK lost their job due to coronavirus and that 52% of those studied expect the British economy to be in recession within a year (Sparkes, 2020) In this paper we aim to investigate the online social response to the working from home WFH concept, by analysis the twitter activity around the coronavirus and WFH, initial findings suggest, 70 6% positive tweets before the lock-down, on the other hand, 78 6% positive tweets after the lock-down around the WFH © Proceedings of the 13th IADIS International Conference ICT, Society and Human Beings 2020, ICT 2020 and Proceedings of the 6th IADIS International Conference Connected Smart Cities 2020, CSC 2020 and Proceedings of the 17th IADIS International Conference Web Based Communities and Social Media 2020, WBC 2020 - Part of the 14th Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, MCCSIS 2020 All rights reserved