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Communicating across the borders: managing work-life boundaries through communication in various domains

2021

Communicating work issues at home and home issues at work, also known as across-the-border (ATB) communication, is a part of everyday work and family interaction. This study focuses on the concept of ATB communication, using Work/Family Border Theory, according to which the boundaries between work and private life are seen as negotiated and shaped through social interactions and practices. We argue that through ATB communication, and especially by focusing on what is shared and how, employees can manage boundaries and achieve work-life balance. Altogether, 32 informants, comprising journalists (N = 16) and their relational others (N = 16), were interviewed to investigate the role of ATB com…

Gli strumenti di conciliazione nella prassi: analisi su un campione di contratti collettivi aziendali

2020

Individuare le vie verso un efficiente sistema di work-life balance è questione complessa e impone di considerare molteplici fattori, tra cui il ruolo strategico che può assumere la contrattazione collettiva nell’integrazione delle misure adottate a livello normativo, perfezionando la disciplina con diritti mirati o per meglio garantire l’attuazione di quelli esistenti. Fino a che punto, però, i contratti collettivi raggiungano nei fatti l’ambizioso obiettivo di potenziare i risultati in questa direzione è ciò che si intende meglio indagare, pur senza pretesa di esaustività. Il presente contributo si concentra sull’analisi dei contenuti di un campione di contratti collettivi di secondo live…

Living in the blurry zone : a study of the wellbeing and work-life balance of Finnish SME entrepreneurs

2018

Pienten ja keskisuurten yritysten yrittäjät ovat tärkeä osa Suomen taloutta. Tämän vuoksi heidän hyvinvointiaan sekä työn ja muun elämän tasapainoa on tärkeää tutkia. Liiketoiminta kirjallisuus on perinteisesti tukenut näkemystä, jonka mukaan yrityksen johtaja tukee työntekijöidensä työn ja muun elämän tasapainoa sekä hyvinvointia. Tämä näkemys ei kuitenkaan ota huomioon yrittäjiä, jotka toimivat yrityksiensä johtajina. Entä heidän hyvinvointinsa? Mikä on heidän työn ja muun elämän tasapainon tila? Tämä tutkimus pyrkii vastaamaan muun muassa näihin kysymyksiin. Tutkimukseen osallistui kaksitoista pienten ja keskisuurten yritysten yrittäjää. Nämä yrittäjät toimivat eri toimialoilla ja eri pu…

Gender and Work-life balance: a contest analysis on nursey schools in Palermo

2018

This paper reflects on the gender inequalities and their influence in the access to labor market and, on the other one, to reproductive process. Maternity and work often arise as choices excluding one another due for the inadequacy of care services. The essay reviews some laws of the last years for encourage the work-life balance and analyzes the presence of the services for children in Palermo. The "case study" of the municipality of Palermo shows a general lack of services and a progressive reduction of public nurseries and kindergarten, despite the economic investments of the last decades at institutional level. It points out how many obstacles persist that discourage female participatio…

Corporate Family Responsibility e Work-Life Balance

2008

Working-Time Regimes and Work-Life Balance in Europe

2015

The organization of times and places of work are key elements of working conditions, and define employees’ possibilities for balancing work and other life spheres. This study analyses several aspects of temporal and spatial flexibility, and their associations with employees’ work-life balance. This study separates four dimensions of temporal flexibility and one indicator of spatial flexibility. The dimensions of temporal flexibility are the number of hours worked, when the hours are worked, work-time intensity, and the degree of working-time autonomy. The workplace flexibility indicator is an index of work locations. Work-life balance is analysed with work-hour fit. The analyses were based …