TABLE 1.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria of systematic review.

Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Participants work remotely from home i.e., spending at least one day of their working time away from their office using ICTs.	Home-based work such as farming or piecework which does not encompass ICT use to enable performance during work activities. Employees who were making use of telework in other places other than their homes, for example, in hotels, coffee bars etc. Reviews or Discussion papers.
A broad range of study types were included: cross-sectional studies, longitudinal studies, qualitative research, case reports, quasi-experimental research and meta-analyses.	Narrative literature reviews, non-research letters, editorials, and animal studies.
Formal workers	Studies of unemployed participants, self-employed individuals and freelancers. Studies of disabled employees were excluded to ensure that none of the health issues identified were related to employees’ disabilities.

Prepared by the authors.