The Use of Communication Technologies After Hours: The Role of Work Attitudes and Work-Life Conflict

By W. Boswell, Julie B. Olson-Buchanan. 2007

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Being engaged at work and detached at home: A week-level study on work engagement, psychological detachment, and affect (2008, background): “One specific threat to a successful segmentation between work and non-work life is the use of communication technologies (e.g., email, pagers, and mobile phones; Boswell & Olson-Buchanon, 2007 ) that make it difficult to mentally switch off from one’s job during after-work hours.”
The Digital Workforce and the Workplace of the Future (2016, background): “Further, technology makes it possible for employees to remain connected to work when they are at home (Boswell & Olson-Buchanan, 2007; Perlow, 2012).”
Technology-assisted supplemental work and work-to-family conflict: The role of instrumentality beliefs, organizational expectations and time management (2010, background): “…may lead to spontaneous interruptions while enacting either role, confusion about when to enact the work role versus the family role, and an inability to fully disengage from one role to enact the other role (Ashforth et al., 2000; Boswell and Olson-Buchanan, 2007; Edwards and Rothbard, 2000).”
Work-related contact, work–family conflict, psychological distress and sleep problems experienced by construction professionals: an integrated explanatory model (2018, background): “Communication technology advancements, particularly mobile devices such as cellular telephones, smartphones, laptops and tablets, have had a profound and irreversible impact on the nature and character of work, effectively altering when, where and how people work (Boswell and Olson-Buchanan 2007).”
Work-Related Communication Technology Use Outside of Regular Work Hours and Work Life Conflict (2014, background): “burnout, stress, communication technology use, work/life The advent of communication technologies has led to profound changes in the workplace (Boswell & Olson-Buchanan, 2007; Kossek & Lautsch, 2012), and while these technologies offer advantages to employees and organizations in terms of cost…”
BALANCING BORDERS AND BRIDGES: NEGOTIATING THE WORK-HOME INTERFACE VIA BOUNDARY WORK TACTICS (2009, background): “On the one hand, being constantly available to both work and family through technology can breed work-home conflict and boundary violations (Boswell & Olson-Buchanan, 2007); on the other hand, technology can facilitate desired integration and work-home balance (Valcour & Hunter, 2005).”
Smartphone use and work-home interference: The moderating role of social norms and employee work engagement (2015, background): “As expected, we replicated the finding that smartphone usewas positively related toWHI (Boswell & Olson-Buchanan, 2007; Chesley, 2005; Derks & Bakker, 2014; Duxbury et al., 1996).”
E-technology and work/life balance for academics with young children (2011, background): “In a study of 1,000 university administrators in the US and their use of technology after hours, Boswell and Olson-Buchanan (2007) found that those employees with higher stated ambition and job involvement were more likely to use technology and found it heightened their work-life”
The stress potential of social media in the workplace (2013, background): “If possible, work habits should be adapted to those boundaries; coworkers should be clearly notified of working and non-working hours and the decision to put in excess working hours should be carefully weighed (Boswell & Olson-Buchanan 2007; Yip et al. 2008; Kreiner et al. 2009; Park et al. 2011).”
Hot Buttons and Time Sinks: The Effects of Electronic Communication During Nonwork Time on Emotions and Work-Nonwork Conflict (2015, background): “Although generally overlooked, some research in the electronic communication literature emphasizes that reactions to others’ communication are shaped by ingrained relational patterns (Baralou &McInnes, 2013; Boudens, 2005) and individual differences that influence how environmental stimuli are evalu”
Work-related smartphone use, work–family conflict and family role performance: The role of segmentation preference (2016, background): “…be mainly dedicated to family life, though nowadays evenings are increasingly being claimed by work demands intruding into the family domain owing to smartphone use, resulting in higher WFC (Boswell and Olson-Buchanan, 2007; Derks et al., 2014a, 2015; Middleton and Cukier, 2006; Orlikowski, 2007).”
Are communications about work outside regular working hours associated with work-to-family conflict, psychological distress and sleep problems? (2013, background): “…& Stress, 2013 Vol. 27, No. 3, 244 261, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02678373.2013.817090 # 2013 Taylor & Francis temporal parameters of the workplace, thus allowing work to intrude upon and gain primacy over other domains (Boswell & Olson-Buchanan, 2007; Valcour & Hunter, 2005).”