Technology, Long Work Hours, and Stress Worsen Work-life Balance in the Construction Industry

Holden, Simon; Sunindijo, Riza Yosia

doi:10.30880/ijie.2018.10.02.003

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“…Up to this year, these would have predominantly been captured via paper and pen signature of receipt. It is still early days to determine whether technology could be an enabler for improved safety practices, culture, and behaviors, noting that the construction sector is not renown for embracing technological solutions (Okpala et al, 2020) and there are potential implications for increase in stress and work‐life balance with implementation of new technology (Holden & Sunindijo, 2018). Also, we note that a high number of migrant workers in the construction sector leads to a language barrier that can impede safety messaging (Bust et al, 2008; Oswald et al, 2019).…”

Section: Observation 1: Managing Covid‐19 Risk In Constructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of COVID‐19 on health and safety in the construction sector

Stiles

Golightly

Ryan

2021

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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Construction has been significantly affected by COVID‐19 yet is critical to the post‐COVID economic recovery. Specifically, construction needs to be constantly aware of safety and risk balanced with timely project delivery. Guidance for COVID‐19 must therefore be implemented in a way that reflects working practice and pressures. There is, however, a potential knowledge gap regarding the practical feasibility and impact of applying COVID‐19 measures within construction, made more difficult by factors such as the temporary nature of projects and complex working arrangements. This article presents a commentary on safe construction during, and beyond, COVID‐19, covering the human factors challenges and practicalities of implementing COVID‐19 measures. We observe that while guidance is strong on risk management, understanding of how best to implement this guidance is not yet stable. Also, care must be taken that implementing guidance does not detract from general safety, which is also challenged by increased pressures on delivery arising from COVID‐19. There may, however, be opportunities for safer working practice arising from new awareness of health, hygiene, and safety risk. The role of safety leadership is overlooked in guidance yet is vital to ensure safe application of COVID‐19 working practices. The key message is that COVID‐19 needs to be integrated and promoted within a general risk management approach, in part because this takes account of differing priorities regarding safety risks, rather than overly focussing on COVID‐19, and also because the effectiveness of COVID‐19 mitigations can be amplified by integration with pre‐existing safety processes.

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Section: Observation 1: Managing Covid‐19 Risk In Constructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of COVID‐19 on health and safety in the construction sector

Stiles

Golightly

Ryan

2021

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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“…The workplace plays a huge part in causing mental health problems among the working population. There is proof which demonstrates that the poor association and administration of work assumes a huge part in the presence of emotional wellness issues [20,21]. In other research, psychosocial issues (for example, the absence of employment control, low choice scope, low ability prudence and work strain) have been observed to be related to the danger of discouragement, weaknesses in working, nervousness, trouble, weariness, work disappointment, burnout and absence due to sickness [20].…”

Section: Mental Healthmentioning

confidence: 89%

Psychosocial Workplace Hazards and Workers’ Health in Factory Sector

Chan

Tasmin

Aziati

et al. 2018

IJIE

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“…Technology advancement in the means of working through technological gadgets like smartphones, tablets & other devices that enable employees to stay connected with work all the time (Easmin, Anwar, Dovash and Karim, 2019). Technology development has given a greater sense of mobility in individuals' daily lives (Holden and Sunindijo, 2018). This increased mobility and interconnectedness has enabled the workforce to work from home, become more itinerant, thus allowing individuals to communicate while in transit, and be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week (Wajeman et al, 2010).…”

Section: Technology Advancementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This program would make the employees to work in flexible location and time without need to travel and eliminate the office space. This can be supported by Holden and Sunindijo (2018), work-life balance is supposed to be good in using information and communication technologies (ICTs) because it increased the employee's flexibility, allows them to complete work in a non-work environment, thus, facilitating social and family needs. However, according to Easmin, Anwar, Dovash and Karim ( 2019), because of technological advancement, there is employee needs to bring their incomplete task out of the office which create negative impact on personal life.…”

Section: Technology Advancementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emotional Intelligence, Social Supports, Technology Advancement, Work Condition and Work-Life Balance among Employees

Samat¹,

Zaki²,

Rasidi³

et al. 2020

IJARBSS

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In order to survive with the economic crisis nowadays, people tend to do more than one job to earn income. It is more difficult for a person with a big family with low income to balance their work and life. This situation leads to the unhealthy lifestyle with no work life balance. Thus, this paper aims to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence, social supports, work condition and technology advancement with work life balance. For the purpose of this study, sets of questionnaires were distributed among working adults by using non-probability sampling technique. 139 respondents were recorder and the hypotheses were tested by using Smart-PLS version 3. Based on the result, social supports and work condition were found to be significant with work life balance. However, emotional intelligence and technology advancement were found to be not significant with work life balance. It is suggested for future research to collect more respondents around the country in order to get more reliable results.

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Technology, Long Work Hours, and Stress Worsen Work-life Balance in the Construction Industry

Cited by 43 publications

References 18 publications

Impact of COVID‐19 on health and safety in the construction sector

Impact of COVID‐19 on health and safety in the construction sector

Psychosocial Workplace Hazards and Workers’ Health in Factory Sector

Emotional Intelligence, Social Supports, Technology Advancement, Work Condition and Work-Life Balance among Employees

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