Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
A Work Time Control Tradeoff in Flexible Work: Competitive Pathways to Need for Recovery
Originally published 2022-12-30 · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/ijerph20010691 ↗
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about autonomy accompanied by limits on excessive after-hours work; the original evidence concerns 2582 employees in a Swedish multisite organization.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Independence
Could more freedom over time also make it harder to stop working?
This reading brings competing pathways from time control through after-hours technology use and overtime to recovery needs into the independence pathway. The cross-sectional flexible-office-work survey offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
2582 employees in a Swedish multisite organization
Age / stage: Working adults; children not directly assessed
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess work-time control, ICT use and need for recovery?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about competitive direct and indirect associations involving overtime?
- What would need to be checked before adopting autonomy accompanied by limits on excessive after-hours work?
Keep the limits in view
Serial mediation from simultaneous reports does not establish temporal order; one flexible-work organization may not represent other kinds of employment.
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Johanna Edvinsson; Svend Erik Mathiassen; Sofie Bjärntoft; Helena Jahncke; Terry Hartig; David M Hallman (2022). A Work Time Control Tradeoff in Flexible Work: Competitive Pathways to Need for Recovery International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010691
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