Working from Home with Flexible and Permeable Boundaries

Seeber, Isabella; Erhardt, Johannes Rafael

doi:10.1007/s12599-023-00801-2

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“…Based on boundary theory, individuals create distinct boundaries between their work and family domains ( Liu et al, 2013 ). Most current research has focused on work boundary flexibility ( Ferguson et al, 2015 ; Lott, 2020 ; Urbanavičiūtė et al, 2022 ; Seeber and Erhardt, 2023 ), and family boundary flexibility is also a significant part of the family-work interaction and can facilitate employees’ productivity ( Babalola et al, 2021 ; Ren et al, 2022 ), stimulate their work vitality, which is the key to effectively improve the work involvement of employees ( Ammons, 2013 ). Therefore, the primary focus will be on examining the direct effect of family boundary flexibility on work engagement in this study.…”

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The effect of family boundary flexibility on employees’ work engagement: a study based on person-environment fit theory perspective

Yang,

Liu,

Zhang

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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Under the impact of the era of big data and public emergency, the blurring of family-work boundaries and the increasing burden of family responsibilities will pose a great challenge to employee resilience and family work balance, which in turn will affect employees’ work engagement. Therefore, based on the person-environment fit theory, this study aims to explore the potential mechanism and boundary conditions of employee family boundary flexibility fit on work engagement. This study conducted a random sampling of enterprise employees in China. A sample of 433 participants completed a questionnaire to provide data. We conduct hierarchical regression and Bootstrap analysis to verify the hypothesis model. The study found that employees’ work engagement is significantly improved when their family boundary flexibility is matched. Family-work enrichment plays a role in mediating the impact of employees’ family boundary flexibility on work engagement. The relationship between family-work enrichment and work engagement is moderated by family support. Therefore, enterprises should respect and value each employee’s family boundary flexibility, establish family-friendly policies, and consider personal family boundary flexibility in employees’ career development planning. This will promote the enhancement of employee resilience, enable better engagement in work, improve work efficiency, and enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises.

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confidence: 99%

The effect of family boundary flexibility on employees’ work engagement: a study based on person-environment fit theory perspective

Yang,

Liu,

Zhang

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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Sustainable HRM in the SAP-LAP Model: Flexible Organizational Systems Based on Change Management

Dzhikiya,

Yankovskaya,

Kuprianova

et al. 2023

Glob J Flex Syst Manag

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Making space for time: Strategies for the design of time‐aware hybrid work

Griva,

Chandra Kruse,

Hattinger

et al. 2024

Information Systems Journal

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Time is central to many debates about hybrid work‐ the impact on speed and productivity, commute times, and synchronisation of work. However, we argue that time is often over‐simplified in extant hybrid work literature and tends to ignore many temporal concepts that capture the inherently complex, multi‐faceted, subtle, and socially embedded nature of time. To address this issue, we conducted studies of five hybrid work teams across two large organisations. The paper contributes to current research on hybrid work by (i) illustrating the various temporal concepts that may be considered in the design of hybrid work environments, as well as the impact of considering or not considering them; (ii) illustrating how these temporal concepts in a physical space can be augmented in the digital space, rather than assuming the digital space should simply represent the physical; and (iii) providing a framework for the consideration of time–aware hybrid work. We hope to spark scientific interest in studying the temporal nuances of hybrid work but also the temporal aspects of design in other areas.

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Working from Home with Flexible and Permeable Boundaries

Cited by 6 publications

References 45 publications

The effect of family boundary flexibility on employees’ work engagement: a study based on person-environment fit theory perspective

The effect of family boundary flexibility on employees’ work engagement: a study based on person-environment fit theory perspective

Sustainable HRM in the SAP-LAP Model: Flexible Organizational Systems Based on Change Management

Making space for time: Strategies for the design of time‐aware hybrid work

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