Smart-Working: Work Flexibility Without Constraints

Angelici, Marta; Profeta, Paola

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3556304

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“…Similarly, Lingard et al [ 23 ] reported that WTC was positively correlated with work-family enrichment. A randomized experiment, conducted by Angelici and Profeta [ 24 ] suggested that implementation of self-rostering facilitated employees’ work-life balance. Lee et al [ 25 ] even claimed that the promotion of flexible work schedules particularly aimed to motivate employees’ work-life balance.…”

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The Effect of Worktime Control on Overtime Employees’ Mental Health and Work-Family Conflict: The Mediating Role of Voluntary Overtime

Leka

2022

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Overtime has become a widespread phenomenon in the current information age that creates a high speed working pace and fierce competition in the high technology global economy. Based on the time-regulation mechanism and effort-recovery model, we examined the effect of worktime control (WTC) on mental health and work-family conflict (WFC) among overtime employees, and whether voluntary overtime mediated the relationships. We also examined two separate dimensions of WTC (control over time-off and control over daily hours). The results showed that control over time-off was related to decreased depression, anxiety, stress and WFC, while control over daily hours was related to decreased stress and WFC. Generally, control over time-off was beneficial to females and employees with dependents. Furthermore, mediation results showed that voluntary overtime was a complete mediator of relationships between WTC and depression and anxiety as well as a partial mediator of the relationship between WTC and stress. However, this study did not find a mediating effect of voluntary overtime on the WTC-WFC relationship. Limitations and practical implications are discussed.

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The Effect of Worktime Control on Overtime Employees’ Mental Health and Work-Family Conflict: The Mediating Role of Voluntary Overtime

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2022

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“…According to the study’s findings, the workers who were more productive at home opted to keep working remotely on a permanent basis. Other recent experiments have confirmed that mobile work can increase workers’ productivity (Angelici and Profeta 2020 ). In a similar vein, employees who returned to full face-to-face work in the fall of 2020 reported higher levels of emotional exhaustion and reduced productivity (Wandt 2020 ).…”

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What will mobile and virtual work look like in the future?—Results of a Delphi-based study

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This contribution to the journal “Group. Interaction. Organization.” (GIO) takes a closer look at the mobile work of the future. Mobile work as well as virtual collaboration is becoming more and more integrated into our everyday working lives—not least reinforced by the COVID-19 Pandemic. In a Delphi-based study, we investigated the question of what mobile and virtual work will look like in the future. For this purpose, 35 future scenarios were described or processed in four rounds with a total of 460 experts and their desirability and probability of occurrence were evaluated. Positive developments are expected for the organization in terms of technology (e.g., advances in virtuality and artificial intelligence), leadership (e.g., increase in shared leadership and participation) and the work-life integration of employees (e.g., more flexibility and self-management). Negative effects are seen for teamwork (e.g., it becomes more difficult to build and maintain team cohesion and social exchange). How the challenges can be dealt with in terms of work design is shown and discussed.

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“…During lockdown, the AFMs of disordered gamblers generally lived in medium-size houses ( M = 93.96, SD = 27.96, range: 42–230 m 2 ), with terraces as the prevalent open spaces, and, on average, with about other two persons in the house ( M = 2.06, SD = 1.05, range: 0–5 persons). Among those who continued to work (34%; n = 18), the majority (72%) went to the workplace, while 28% continued to work via “smart working,” an organisational model of work developed during the COVID-19 pandemic in which workers were able to work outside their workplace and with a flexible time schedule thanks to the use of technology (Angelici and Profeta, 2020 ). The relationships with the cohabitants were rated as quite good ( M = 7.83, SD = 1.55, range: 4–10) and were judged as predominantly improved, generally due to greater family sharing.…”

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What About Affected Family Members of Disordered Gamblers During the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Study in Italy During the Lockdown Restrictions

Donati

Capitanucci²,

Beccari

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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Although some studies have been conducted on gambling behaviour in the general population or in clinical samples during the COVID-19 pandemic, less attention has been focused on Affected Family Members (AFMs) of disordered gamblers. To fill this gap, this study investigated the psychological state of disordered gamblers' AFMs during the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy, the European country first affected by the virus and with the largest gambling market. We were interested in understanding if the unavailability of most land-based gambling offerings during the lockdown created a sense of relief in AFMs. We also compared the quality of family relationships and emotional state during the lockdown of AFMs with those of their relative with Gambling Disorder (GD). Participants were 53 disordered gamblers' AFMs (77% female; mean age = 50.28). For 42 out of the 53 AFMs, we also recruited their relative with GD (86% male; mean age = 48.98). A semi-structured telephone interview was developed. Although AFMs reported a general interruption of the relative's gambling behaviour and a general sense of relief for the closure of gambling activities, accompanied by the perception of good family relationships, AFMs still felt tired, worried, and apprehensive and perceived more fear, stress, and anxiety than before the lockdown. A large proportion of AFMs engaged in potentially addictive behaviours, especially TV and mobile phone and Internet use, which increased in frequency compared to before the pandemic. They still perceived some gambling-related problematic behaviours from their relative and put in place coping strategies to manage the gambling problem. Even if they had a general positive orientation towards the future, they experienced fear when thinking about the reopening of gambling opportunities at the end of the lockdown. Compared to their relatives with GD, AFMs appeared more prone to perceiving a general negative state and a worsening of it from before the lockdown. Overall, this study shows that disordered gambling's AFMs can be considered as a particularly at-risk group who deserves focused clinical attention even during gambling closures related to pandemic lockdown.

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Smart-Working: Work Flexibility Without Constraints

Cited by 100 publications

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The Effect of Worktime Control on Overtime Employees’ Mental Health and Work-Family Conflict: The Mediating Role of Voluntary Overtime

The Effect of Worktime Control on Overtime Employees’ Mental Health and Work-Family Conflict: The Mediating Role of Voluntary Overtime

What will mobile and virtual work look like in the future?—Results of a Delphi-based study

What About Affected Family Members of Disordered Gamblers During the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Study in Italy During the Lockdown Restrictions

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