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Mid-March 2020 the current novel coronavirus outbreak, Covid-19, forced national governments across the world to order people to work from home (WFH), unless they had jobs of high necessity. Being in an unprecedented situation in Denmark and with our research interest in digital transformations, knowledge intensive work, management of distance work and management of both employee wellbeing and performance management, we designed a survey that focused on the experiences of WFH. The aim was to investigate the early, initial reactions of people working from home, their use of digital technology during the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak, how they collaborated and organized remote work, measure the experiences of working from home and reasons behind their experiences. The survey was first launched in Denmark (20th March) and then followed by seven other European countries, plus two outside Europe. This report presents results from data collected in the period from 21st of March until 11th of May with more than 100 national full responses from participants that worked fully from home since the Covid-19 lockdown, which means 4643 responses from eight European countries. The sampling was conducted by invitations send out through social media, local news channels and via professional networks (eg LinkedIn). The respondents were mainly knowledge workers and managers; a small majority of the respondents were women (60%). The questionnaire was also distributed among thousands of students, but this report presents only results from professionals and managers working from home. Given the short preparation time …