Flexible work and the family

National strategies with the aim of facilitating a better work-family balance have increased pressure on work organizations to offer arrangements that are more family-friendly. Flexible work, such as telework or flexitime, has been argued to facilitate a better integration of work and family respons...

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Other Authors Abendroth, Anja-Kristin (Editor), Lükemann, Laura (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
SeriesContemporary perspectives on family research ; v. 21.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781804555941
DOI10.1108/S1530-3535202321
Physical Description1 online resource (312 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. When home becomes workplace: Work-life balance experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic / Samantha Metselaar, Laura den Dulk, and Brenda Vermeeren
  • Chapter 2. Working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned about the relationship between flexible work and work-family conflict / Mareike Reimann
  • Chapter 3. Working remotely during the covid 19-pandemic: Work and non-work antecedents of work-life balance development / Liisa Mäkelä, Heini Pensar, Samu Kemppinen, and Hilpi Kangas
  • Chapter 4. Does telework mediate the impact of occupational status on work-to-family conflicts? An investigation of conditional effects of gender and the COVID-19 pandemic / Antje Schwarz, Ayhan Adams, and Katrin Golsch
  • Chapter 5. Does working from home improve the temporal alignment of work and private life? Differences between telework and informal overtime at home by gender and family responsibilities / Alexandra Mergener, Ines Entgelmeier, and Timothy Rinke
  • Chapter 6. Individual and cross-partner transitions to flexitime and teleworking and cognitive subjective well-being / Aneesa F. Qadri
  • Chapter 7. Workplace flexibility, work-family guilt, and working mothers' parenting behavior / Melissa Rector LaGraff and Heidi E. Stolz.