New Telework, Time Pressure, and Time Use Control in Everyday Life

By Eva Thulin, Bertil Vilhelmson, Martin Wetterstrand. Sustainability, 2019

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This study explores how changing conditions for home-based telework affect the quality of life and social sustainability of workers in terms of time pressure and time use control in everyday life. Changing conditions concern the spread of telework to new types of jobs of a more routine character, involving new practices of unregulated work and anytime smartphone access. Empirically, we draw on survey data from a sample of 456 home-based teleworkers employed by six governmental agencies in Sweden. Results indicate that subjective time pressure is not associated with job type in terms of distinguishing between bounded case work and more independent analytical work. Time pressure is intensified by family-related factors, telework performed outside of working hours, and part-time work, and is moderated by the private use of smartphones. We find no significant associations between subjective time use control, job qualifications, and teleworking practice. Family situation and having small children at home reduce time use control. Also, high levels of smartphone use for work-related purposes are associated with reduced control.

Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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• Understanding the bright side and the dark side of telework: An empirical analysis of working conditions and psychosomatic health complaints (2021, background): “With the expansion of telework arrangements, interferences of work and family need to be investigated more closely, too (Allen et al., 2013; Delanoeije et al., 2019; Thulin et al., 2019).”