Work-life balance crafting during COVID-19: exploring strategies of telecommuting employees in the Philippines

Caringal-Go, Jaimee Felice; Teng‐Calleja, Mendiola; Bertulfo, Donald Jay; Manaois, Jason O.

doi:10.1080/13668803.2021.1956880

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“…employing time management strategies, working in one's most productive time) were associated with work-life balance. Other researchers have taken a more contextual look at work-life balance crafting, for instance, by looking at co-working couples who run their own businesses together and how they individually and dyadically engage in job crafting to create a balance between their work and life (Dreyer and Busch, 2021), or by looking at work-life balance among forced telecommuters due to the COVID-19 pandemic (Caringal-Go et al, 2021). The contextualized approaches revealed similar patterns with regard to managing where and when to work and when not (see also time-spatial job crafting; Lazauskaite-Zabielske et al, 2021; Wessels et al, 2020) but also distinct forms of work-life balance crafting, such as asking for spousal support to protect personal time.…”

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A state-of-the-art overview of job-crafting research: current trends and future research directions

Tims

Twemlow

Fong

2021

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PurposeIn celebration of the 25th anniversary of the founding of Career Development International, a state-of-the-art overview of recent trends in job-crafting research was conducted. Since job crafting was introduced twenty years ago as a type of proactive work behavior that employees engage in to adjust their jobs to their needs, skills, and preferences, research has evolved tremendously.Design/methodology/approachTo take stock of recent developments and to unravel the latest trends in the field, this overview encompasses job-crafting research published in the years 2016–2021. The overview portrays that recent contributions have matured the theoretical and empirical advancement of job-crafting research from three perspectives (i.e. individual, team and social).FindingsWhen looking at the job-crafting literature through these three perspectives, a total of six trends were uncovered that show that job-crafting research has moved to a more in-depth theory-testing approach; broadened its scope; examined team-level job crafting and social relationships; and focused on the impact of job crafting on others in the work environment and their evaluations and reactions to it.Originality/valueThe overview of recent trends within the job-crafting literature ends with a set of recommendations for how future research on job crafting could progress and create scientific impact for the coming years.

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Section: Team Perspective On Job Craftingmentioning

confidence: 99%

A state-of-the-art overview of job-crafting research: current trends and future research directions

Tims

Twemlow

Fong

2021

CDI

111

102

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“…Since the start of the pandemic, research on crafting as a tool to cope with the consequences of the crisis has been flourishing. The first theoretical [ 80 ], qualitative [ 81 ] and quantitative evidence [ 82 , 83 ] does indeed suggest that crafting work, leisure and the boundaries between life domains has the potential to buffer against the negative effects of the crisis on mental health and provide workers with a sense of meaning. However, the remote working context also poses new challenges and opportunities in motivating people to craft.…”

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Motives for Crafting Work and Leisure: Focus on Opportunities at Work and Psychological Needs as Drivers of Crafting Efforts

Kosenkranius

Rink

Kujanpää

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Employees of all ages can proactively shape their behavior to manage modern work–life challenges more effectively and this is known as crafting. Our goal is to better understand employees’ motives for engaging in crafting efforts in different life domains to fulfil their psychological needs. In a survey study with two measurement waves, we examined whether “focus on opportunities at work” (FoO)—the extent to which employees believe in new goals and opportunities in their occupational future—and psychological needs (i.e., approach and avoidance needs)—predicted crafting efforts at work and outside work (i.e., job and off-job crafting). Our hypotheses were largely confirmed in a study on 346 Finnish workers. Greater FoO led to greater approach needs (i.e., mastery, meaning, affiliation), which in turn explained higher engagement in both job and off-job crafting. Avoidance needs (i.e., detachment, relaxation) resulted in increased crafting efforts in both life domains directly. Our findings underline the importance of FoO for crafting efforts across life domains, and explain why this is the case (i.e., it activates approach-oriented psychological needs). By supporting workers in shifting their focus onto their future opportunities (regardless of their age), organizations can create environments conducive to crafting and ultimately sustainable work lives.

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“…The COVID‐19 pandemic has abruptly disrupted many workers' work–life balance (Thomason and Williams 2020 ), thus necessitating their adjustment and re‐orientation to new routines that prioritize and address the demands of the pandemic (Caringal‐Go et al. 2022 ). To provide relevant insights to facilitate such adjustments, we re‐examine these salient work and life demands and show how they have changed in the course of the pandemic.…”

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“…The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) has prompted a sweeping transition to remote working (Caringal‐Go et al. 2022 ), which is unlikely to be reversed post‐pandemic (Carroll and Conboy 2020 ). With the threat of subsequent COVID‐19 waves and other pandemic outbreaks (Wise 2020 ), social distancing and lockdown measures are likely to be an ongoing feature in our lives for the foreseeable future.…”

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Work, life and COVID‐19: a rapid review and practical recommendations for the post‐pandemic workplace

Chan

Shang

Brough

et al. 2022

Asia Pac J Human Res

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Remote working because of the COVID‐19 pandemic has eroded boundaries between work and home, necessitating the need to evaluate the long‐term impacts of these changes and mitigate any negative effects on workers' work‐life experiences. To do so, we reviewed and examined work‐life research published since the start of the pandemic. The review yielded a sample of 303 work‐life scholarly articles, with three common themes: 1) work‐life boundaries have become more permeable, with behavior‐based and time‐based work‐life conflict emerging as the more salient forms of work‐life conflict; 2) technical work demands have increased, as employees grapple with techno‐invasion, techno‐overload and techno‐complexity; and 3) psychological and emotional work demands have intensified. Based on these key findings, we call for multi‐level and multi‐agency responses to deal with the complex, diverse nature of work‐life demands. Specifically, we offer recommendations at the individual‐, team/organizational‐ and societal/governmental‐levels to enhance employees' work and non‐work lives after the pandemic.

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Work-life balance crafting during COVID-19: exploring strategies of telecommuting employees in the Philippines

Cited by 47 publications

References 46 publications

A state-of-the-art overview of job-crafting research: current trends and future research directions

A state-of-the-art overview of job-crafting research: current trends and future research directions

Motives for Crafting Work and Leisure: Focus on Opportunities at Work and Psychological Needs as Drivers of Crafting Efforts

Work, life and COVID‐19: a rapid review and practical recommendations for the post‐pandemic workplace

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