Table 4.

Reported challenges of working from home by Society for Pediatric Radiology respondents with (n=191 respondents to question) and without home PACS systems (n=44 respondents to question)

Answer choices to CHALLENGES when working from home	Respondents with home PACS # and %	Respondents without home PACS # and %	Comparison (P-value)
Change in social interactions with colleagues (both within and outside Department of Radiology)	135 (70.1%)	37 (84.1%)	0.09
Differences in communications (coworkers, technologists, ordering providers, nursing staff, etc.)	110 (57.6%)	36 (81.8%)	0.003
Social or emotional engagement with hospital/coworkers	102 (53.4%)	27 (61.4%)	0.40
Decreased boundaries between work responsibilities and home/personal life	74 (38.7%)	21 (47.7%)	0.31
Internet connectivity/power outages	50 (26.2%)	20 (45.5%)	0.02
Computing hardware/software difficulties	38 (19.9%)	14 (31.8%)	0.11
Childcare (both availability of child care or simply having children at home)	33 (17.3%)	10 (22.7%)	0.39
Physical workspace	29 (15.2%)	10 (22.7%)	0.26
Too many distractions at home	28 (14.7%)	17 (38.6%)*	0.001
Lack of usual reference materials at home	25 (13.1%)	4 (9.1%)	0.61
Pressure to still work from home despite being mildly ill	15 (7.9%)	3 (6.8%)	1.00
No change in rotations (e.g., structure of in-hospital rotations/responsibilities/time frame did NOT change despite now working from home)	15 (7.9%)	1 (2.3%)	0.32

The top three challenges from each cohort are in bold

*Variable with different ranking from the group who were not able to work from home, compared to those who do work from home