Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Always available? A systematic review on extended work-related availability, health outcomes and work-family conflict
Originally published 2026-01-12 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1726421 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about clearer expectations about availability after work; the original evidence concerns 17 studies of extended work-related availability and work-family conflict.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Independence
What does always being available cost our time outside work?
This reading brings extended availability, boundary-management styles and health across a small review literature into the independence pathway. The systematic review offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
17 studies of extended work-related availability and work-family conflict
Age / stage: Adult worker literature; not a child study
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess extended availability and work-family conflict across included studies?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about organizational conditions and individual boundary styles?
- What would need to be checked before adopting clearer expectations about availability after work?
Keep the limits in view
The review is limited by its 17 included studies and their designs; associations do not establish one universal boundary policy or causal health effect.
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Simon Renk; Christine Sutter (2026). Always available? A systematic review on extended work-related availability, health outcomes and work-family conflict Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1726421
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