The home as a workplace: Work–family interaction and psychological well-being in telework.

Abstract

Home-based telework is a growing phenomenon with great potential to affect employees' psychological well-being. Although prior studies show both positive and negative effects on work-family interaction, conclusions are limited by the way telework, well-being, and work-family interaction have been modeled. The authors present a conceptual framework that describes telework as a multidimensional phenomenon and separates the effects of the home environment from those of distance from the organization. Propositions concerning work-family interaction are developed from P. Warr's (1987) model of the environmental antecedents of well-being, prior telework studies, and the work-family literature. Spillover between work and nonwork domains of well-being is discussed, and suggestions for future research on this complex issue are presented.

Flexible Working Arrangements: Implementation, Outcomes, and Management

“…The tendency to overworking may be regarded as symptomatic of the increased blurring of work and non-work boundaries that appears to be becoming widespread, facilitated by developments in information and communication technologies (Haddon, 1992;Steward, 2000;Sullivan & Lewis, 2001). Although the outcome measures used in research on telework often differ from those used in relation to other forms of flexible working arrangements, research does seem to suggest that too much flexibility in the context of information and communication technology in the home as well as the workplace may raise a different set of issues about impacts on individuals, their families, and organizations that will require further exploration and research (Standen, Daniels, & Lamond, 1999). The effects of teleworking also appear to be highly gendered.…”

An examination of determinants influencing the desire for and frequency of part-day and whole-day homeworking

“…Homeworking has been found to increase home-work conflict (Baruch and Nicholson, 1997;Standen et al 1999;Golden et al, 2006). Although many teleworkers attempt to develop spatial boundaries between work and home life -such as assigning a 2 Distinctions were made in the survey between the commute to and the commute from the workplace to allow examination of possible differential considerations of these in the context of varied spatiotemporal working -though as will later be seen, a significantly different influence of these has not been identified.…”

Telework and health effects review

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