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Why increase in telework may have affected employee well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic? The role of work and non-work life domains.
| Content Provider | Europe PMC |
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| Author | Kaltiainen, Janne Hakanen, Jari J. |
| Abstract | Given that millions of employees switched to mandatory telework during COVID-19, and as teleworking practices are likely to continue, it is essential to understand the potential impact of mandatory and non-flexible teleworking practices on employee well-being. Drawing on Conservation of Resources theory, we find support for resource gains as increase in job control mediates the link between increases in teleworking and improvements in well-being (increases in work engagement and decreases in burnout and job boredom). Conversely, the findings indicate resource losses as loss of social support and higher work-non-work interference explain the deterioration in well-being for those whose teleworking increased since the COVID-19 outbreak. By coupling role depletion and role enrichment theories, we find that employees who had children living at home experienced greater work-non-work interference due to increased teleworking. However, having children also buffered the negative impact of work-non-work interference on well-being. The findings are based on a Finnish population sample collected three months before and after the COVID-19 outbreak in March 2020 (N = 996 of matched respondents) and latent change score analyses of within-person changes. Our results provide new insights regarding the potential impact of teleworking on employee well-being in a context where teleworking is not flexible and self-selected by the employees. Notably, our results draw bridges (rather than burn them) between role depletion and enrichment frameworks as having children may simultaneously be “a burden” and “a gift”.Supplementary informationThe online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12144-023-04250-8. |
| ISSN | 10461310 |
| Journal | Current Psychology (New Brunswick, N.j.) |
| PubMed Central reference number | PMC9878489 |
| PubMed reference number | 36718392 |
| e-ISSN | 19364733 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s12144-023-04250-8 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer US |
| Publisher Date | 2023-01-26 |
| Publisher Place | New York |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. © The Author(s) 2023 |
| Subject Keyword | Telework Employee well-being and engagement Work-nonwork/work-family COVID-19 Latent change score analysis Job design |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Psychology |
