Focus group transcripts from employees and line managers on sedentary behaviour when working at home

This data relates to research conducted as part of a MRC PHIND funded study (Medical Research Council Public Health Intervention Development Award - MR/W003511/1) to develop health-enhancing solutions to reduce sedentary behaviour when working at home. The purpose of the study was to collaborate with employees and line managers with experience of working at home or leading a team of staff working at home. To do this we conducted a series of six focus groups focused on [add]. Three focus groups were conducted with employee participants (18-40 year olds, working full time and for more than 60% of their week at home, in a desk-based role (e.g secretarial / administrative / sales) and three focus groups with line manager participants (with team members in the same population as the employee group). At the time of the focus groups (Jan to March 2022) there were still some lockdown restrictions in place and the majority of people in Scotland who could work from home were still working at home for most of their normal working week. Aligning with this, we conducted the focus group online using MS Teams. Each focus group lasted for approx. one (1) hour, was recorded and later transcribed verbatim by a University of Edinburgh approved transcription service. Data analysis was guided by the COM-B model for understanding capability, opportunity, and motivation to change behaviour. Findings from the study were used to inform the development of an evidence-informed toolkit to support those working at home to move more across the course of the working day. The dataset includes the six transcripts - one from each focus group. Each transcript is labelled to show which focus group it relates to. All participant names have been replaced by a pseudonym. Where geographical locations, organisation names, job titles demonstrated potential to identify a participant these were replaced with generic codes. The dataset relates to the upcoming publication Morton, Fitzsimons, Sivaramakrishnan, Jepson, Niven (in preparation), "Are we working (too) comfortably?: Developing intervention strategies to support employees aged 18-40 to reduce their sedentary behaviour when working at home".