Work–life Balance and Working from Home

Crosbie, Tracey; Moore, Jeanne

doi:10.1017/s1474746404001733

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“…Similarly, Baines and Gelder (2003), who studied selfemployed home-based workers, would categorize the former model as 'rigidly scheduled' and the latter as 'work -family inclusive'. Crosbie and Moore (2004) found differences between professional and non-professional homeworkers in the degree of challenge they felt balancing work and life commitments. They found professional women with young children felt these challenges most acutely since they tended to see their role as workers and mothers having equal demands.…”

Section: Telework In North Americamentioning

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Mr. Dithers Comes to Dinner: Telework and the merging of women's work and home domains in Canada

Johnson

Andrey

Shaw

2007

Gender, Place & Culture

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Studies of home-based telework by women yield mixed results regarding the usefulness of telework in facilitating work-life balance. Most research on the social impacts of home-based telework focuses on workers-employees or self-employed-who deliberately choose that alternative work arrangement. Labour force analysts, however, predict an increase in employer-initiated teleworking. As a case study of the workforce of one large, financial-sector firm in Canada, this article considers the conditions of employment of involuntary teleworkers, those required by their employer to work full-time from a home office. In-depth interviews were co nducted with a sample of 18 female teleworkers working for the case study firm in a professional occupation. Study participants described the advantages and disadvantages of working from home, particularly with regard to spatial and social aspects of locating work in a home setting. The gendered nature of their jobs, and the caring and supportive functions they provide both through their employment and their household responsibilities are seen to support the relocation of their jobs from office to their homes. In many jurisdictions, telework is promoted as a means of giving women more flexibility to balance their paid work with their household responsibilities; the article highlights some of the contradictions involved in moving the workplace into women's homes.

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Section: Telework In North Americamentioning

confidence: 90%

Mr. Dithers Comes to Dinner: Telework and the merging of women's work and home domains in Canada

Johnson

Andrey

Shaw

2007

Gender, Place & Culture

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“…In contrast, homeworkers doing low-skilled work for low pay tend to look after their children while simultaneously working. Their situation is thus the opposite of most professional homeworkers (Crosbie and Moore, 2004;Moore, 2006).…”

Section: Ijssp 341/2mentioning

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Informal overtime at home instead of telework: increase in negative work-family interface

Ojala

Nätti

Anttila

2014

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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Purpose -The authors aim to compare how formal flexibility, such as telework, differs from informal overtime work at home regarding the work-family interface. Design/methodology/approach -By using data from the Finnish Quality of Work Life Surveys from 2003 and 2008, the positive and negative measures concerning the work-family interface are examined through logistic regression analysis. Findings -Employees doing informal overtime at home are more likely to be affected by negative emotions concerning work disrupting family lives. Additionally, negotiations between couples over the allocation of time become areas of conflict. Only weak evidence is provided for both telework and informal work at home supporting family life. Research limitations/implications -In studying homeworking, it is important to separate between formal and informal flexibility at work. The data exceptionally enable that. The limitations of the data are cross-sectionality and only a few measures for assessing the positive work-family interface. Originality/value -The contribution of the study is to show how informal overtime at home is related with stronger negative implications for work-family interface, when separated from telework. The article discusses how well-intentioned working schedule flexibility results in family life being infringed upon. Informal work may help attain a better work-family interface, but, with dual-earner employment being predominant in Finland, informal overtime work can increase pressures on families. The authors encourage the policy-and organisation-level recognition of informal overtime risks.

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“…The domestic life of the household is confronted with the need to incorporate relations of employment into its midst. The ways in which this is achieved by men and women as well as by different occupational groups has been the focus of investigation (Marsh and Musson, 2008;Crosbie and Moore, 2004;Fitzgerald and Winter, 2001).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Working at home, on the other hand, requires that workers learn how to manage the twin pressures of isolation from co-workers and the need to fend off interruptions from family and friends who are brought into close proximity when work is brought home (see, for example, Marsh and Musson, 2008;Crosbie and Moore, 2004;Fitzgerald and Winter, 2001). Those who succeed in managing these pressures deploy particular practices that are self-imposed.…”

Section: What Are the Consequences For Learning At Work?mentioning

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Rapid change or slow evolution? Changing places of work and their consequences in the UK

Felstead

2012

Journal of Transport Geography

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Work–life Balance and Working from Home

Cited by 210 publications

References 22 publications

Mr. Dithers Comes to Dinner: Telework and the merging of women's work and home domains in Canada

Mr. Dithers Comes to Dinner: Telework and the merging of women's work and home domains in Canada

Informal overtime at home instead of telework: increase in negative work-family interface

Rapid change or slow evolution? Changing places of work and their consequences in the UK

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