Search results for "Work-Life Balance"
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Interventions for improving psychological detachment from work: A meta-analysis.
2021
Psychological detachment from work during off-job time is crucial to sustaining employee health and well-being. However, this can be difficult to achieve, particularly when job stress is high and recovery is most needed. Boosting detachment from work is therefore of interest to many employees and organizations, and over the last decade numerous interventions have been developed and evaluated. The aim of this meta-analysis was to review and statistically synthesize the state of research on interventions designed to improve detachment both at work and outside of it. After a systematic search (covering the period 1998-2020) of the published and unpublished literature, 30 studies with 34 interv…
In search of a theoretical framework of factors influencing work and life balance
2021
Work and life balance (WLB) has gained noticeable attention amid the pandemic. Even before the outbreak of COVID-19, the increasing pace of life encouraged the investigation of individual and organisational aspects of WLB. Physically and mentally healthy people help society develop and grow. Health issues caused by work and life imbalance lead to dissatisfaction with both work and life, which, in turn, leads to higher stress and stress-related illnesses, for instance, burnout. From the organisational point of view, WLB is a factor in analysing the efficiency of an enterprise. The consequences of a work-life imbalance are intentional or unintentional absence, high employee turnover, low prod…
Patterns of Working Time and Work Hour Fit in Europe
2018
The requirements for more flexible and lean forms of production that are able to adapt to demand cycles, both quantitatively and functionally, are common in all advanced economies. At the same time, the flexibilization of working times and work places has become an increasing focus for the analysis of quality of work and life (i.e. work-life balance). This chapter approaches flexibilization as a transition from an industrial to a post-industrial working time regime. The new post-industrial working time regime is usually characterized by deregulation of collective norms, diversification of the length (short and long hours) and pattern of working time (unsocial hours), increasing work intensi…
Mental disorders and long-term labour market outcomes : nationwide cohort study of 2 055 720 individuals
2019
Objective: To examine the associations between an onset of serious mental disorders before the age of 25 with subsequent employment, income, and education outcomes. Methods: Nationwide cohort study including individuals (n=2 055 720) living in Finland between 1963 and 1990, who were alive at the end of the year they turned 25. Mental disorder diagnosis between ages 15 and 25 was used as the exposure. The level of education, employment status, annual wage or self‐employment earnings, and annual total income between ages 25 and 52 (measurement years 1988‐2015) were used as the outcomes. Results: All serious mental disorders were associated with increased risk of not being employed and not hav…
Consolidation of working hours and work-life balance in anaesthesiologists - A cross-sectional national survey.
2018
Currently, healthcare management fosters a maximization of performance despite a relative shortage of specialists. We evaluated anaesthesiologists' workload, physical health, emotional well-being, job satisfaction and working conditions under increased pressure from consolidated working hours. A nationwide cross-sectional survey was performed in Austrian anaesthesiologists (overall response rate 41.0%). Three hundred and ninety four anaesthesiologists (280 specialists, 114 anaesthesiology trainees) participated. Anaesthesiologists reported frequently working under time pressure (95%CI: 65.6-74.6), at high working speed (95%CI: 57.6-67.1), with delayed or cancelled breaks (95%CI: 54.5-64.1),…
Work-life balance e servizi per la prima infanzia. Un’analisi di contesto in tema di welfare locale.
2017
Questo saggio riflette su come le diseguaglianze in tema di genere e classi d’età influenzino l’accesso al mercato del lavoro, ma, soprattutto, la sfera riproduttiva. Maternità e professione si pongono spesso come scelte escludentesi l’un l’altro per l’inadeguatezza dei servizi di cura soprattutto nel Meridione. Il saggio passa in rassegna le leggi che a livello nazionale e regionale hanno cercato di favorire la conciliazione famiglia-lavoro nelle famiglie dual earner. Analizza poi la presenza di tali servizi per l’infanzia in Palermo, negli ultimi anni. Il case study del comune di Palermo evidenzia una generale esiguità dei servizi e una pro- gressiva diminuzione degli asili nido pubblici,…
Work-life balance: lo stato dell’arte e la sua applicazione nell’emergenza epidemiologica
2020
The essay examines the measures undertaken both at EU and national level to face the needs of work-life balance. More speci&cally, the paper analyzes the main provisions introduced by EU Directive 2019/1158 on the balance between private and professional life, as well as the subsequent Italian regulatory framework with particular reference to the rules carried-out during the epidemiological emergency: the Author highlights how work-life balance policies have effects not only on female employment but also on the distribution of care burdens between men and women and, consequently, on gender equalit
Comportamenti di cittadinanza organizzativa e work-life balance: alcune considerazioni sull'equilibrio tra tempo dedicato al lavoro e tempo dedicato …
2010
Mothers’ return-to-work reasons and work–family conflict : does a partner involved in childcare make a difference?
2021
Facilitating mothers’ work–family reconciliation upon their return to work can be considered a viable means of enhancing women’s overall employment participation. This study examined return-to-work reasons among mothers with a one-year-old child, how these reasons are related to mothers’ background characteristics, work-to-family conflict (WFC) and family-to-work conflict (FWC) and whether having a partner home caring for the child protects against such conflicts. Results based on survey data collected from Finnish working mothers (N = 573) in 2016 showed four dimensions of return-to-work reasons: personal importance of work, work- and career-related worries, dissatisfaction with stay-at-ho…
Il lavoro agile e il telelavoro nello scenario europeo e comparato: dinamiche emergenti, effetti sulla qualità del lavoro e strumenti di regolazione
2017
Il presente lavoro offre un quadro di sintesi del report congiunto Oil-Eurofound su Working Anytime, Anywhere. The Effects on the World of Work, che ha per oggetto l’impatto delle Icts sulle relazioni di lavoro in dieci Stati, sia all’interno dell’Unione Europea che in paesi extra-europei. Il saggio si prefigge innanzitutto di analizzare i rischi e le opportunità correlati alla digitalizzazione del lavoro nel capitalismo contemporaneo, principalmente con riferimento agli impatti su orario di lavoro, conciliazione vita-lavoro, salute e sicurezza e produttività. Al contempo ricostruisce un quadro sistematico delle principali politiche normative e contrattuali volte a favorire lo sviluppo di t…