Flexible Working, Work–Life Balance, and Gender Equality: Introduction

Chung, Heejung; Lippe, Tanja van der

doi:10.1007/s11205-018-2025-x

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“…The opportunity to combine work and family life for example through more flexible working time and parental leave arrangements should also be improved (cp. Hietamäki et al 2018;Chung and van der Lippe 2018). Furthermore, a change in attitudes both in families and at workplaces supporting fathers' responsibilities and rights in childcare is urgently needed (see for example Närvi 2014;Sipilä et al 2012).…”

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Gender Inequalities in Early Career Trajectories and Parental Leaves: Evidence from a Nordic Welfare State

2019

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Parental leaves are, besides unemployment, the main reason for career breaks in early career. Despite the progress in recent decades towards more equal sharing of childcare between mothers and fathers, the labour market risk due to parenting remains mainly with women. In this article, we analyse how parental leaves relate to early career trajectories of young Finnish men and women. Using longitudinal register data for 2005-2016 from the Finnish Centre for Pensions, we perform a multi-trajectory analysis of the labour market attachment of a cohort born in 1980. Based on working days and earnings, we find five distinct career trajectories for both men and women, with the majority being well attached to the labour market by their mid-30s. While men and women on average have similar employment lengths, the gender gap in earnings is already 30 per cent in this early career phase. One of the causes may be found in the highly unequal division of family-related career breaks; the duration of mothers' family-related leaves in this cohort was 13 times longer than fathers' leave spells. Long home care leaves were particularly common among mothers with low education levels and weak attachment to the labour market. Efforts towards a more equal division of parental leaves are needed in order to combat gender inequalities that already emerge in early career and potentially cause life-long disadvantages for women's careers, earnings and pensions.

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Gender Inequalities in Early Career Trajectories and Parental Leaves: Evidence from a Nordic Welfare State

2019

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“…The exchange of critical information about how things in the organisation work makes tasks easier to execute by directly helping employees advance towards their work goals and by facilitating smoothing transactions with co‐workers (Chiaburu and Harrison, ). However, if such information is not exchanged between employees, this might affect their work intensification as they are not helped by others (Chung and Van der Lippe, ).…”

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Co‐workers working from home and individual and team performance

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2019

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The number of firms supporting work from home has risen dramatically as advances in communication technology have fundamentally transformed the way humans cooperate. A growing literature addresses working from home, but focuses only on individual workers, overlooking potential influence of co‐worker engagement. Our aim is to study the influence of co‐workers working from home on individual and team performance. We use unique data from a large‐scale survey involving nine European countries, 259 establishments, 869 teams and 11,011 employees to show that the impact of working from home by co‐workers on performance is considerable and has remained hidden in past studies because they did not account for co‐worker effects. While working from home may be useful for some workers, it does bring issues for them as well. Specifically, we demonstrate that co‐workers working from home negatively impact employee performance. Moreover, team performance is worse when more co‐workers are working from home.

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“…A significant number of studies have revealed a strong connection between telework and personal-professional life balance in the case of individuals working from home. From the beginning, telework has been associated with a flexible work schedule, as numerous studies emphasize that flexibility in choosing the time and the place to work not only supports WLB [22][23][24][25] but also it is frequently a key factor when choosing an employer [24].…”

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Sustainable Social and Individual Implications of Telework: A New Insight into the Romanian Labor Market

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This research aims to evaluate the individual and social implications of telework, along with the foreseeable permanent result that could be generated. Consistent with this objective, a survey has been carried out on a sample of 1180 Romanian employees, on which a model has been developed, based on structural equation modelling. The model includes five latent variables, on the one hand targeting telework features and on the other hand, its possible effects on individuals and society. At an individual level, the study results emphasize that telework could contribute to a better work–life balance and could also help teleworkers to develop specific teleworking abilities. At a social level, telework could generate sustainable effects targeting the long-term management of the work force and providing solutions to potential problems at local community levels. The managerial implications of this study are directed toward the need to implement a series of sustainable human resource management strategies and efficient employee training and development programs. Moreover, organizations need to be more proactive in assuming corporate social responsibilities.

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Flexible Working, Work–Life Balance, and Gender Equality: Introduction

Cited by 395 publications

References 63 publications

Gender Inequalities in Early Career Trajectories and Parental Leaves: Evidence from a Nordic Welfare State

Gender Inequalities in Early Career Trajectories and Parental Leaves: Evidence from a Nordic Welfare State

Co‐workers working from home and individual and team performance

Sustainable Social and Individual Implications of Telework: A New Insight into the Romanian Labor Market

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