Mahir Jibril Ahmed
Emotional labor: the elusive aspect of workplace exploitation
Richard Petts – What if All Fathers in the U.S. had Paid Paternity Leave?
When you think about having babies, what images come to mind? If you’re like most people, you’ll think about mothers. That’s certainly the tenor of the pronatalist discussions in the U.S. today. Fatherhood scholar Richard Petts asks us to think differently—to think about fathers, not just mothers. He asks us to work toward a future where all [Read More...]
Melissa Milkie – Making “Quality Time” – for Kids and Their Parents
“Time is our most important resource,” says time-use researcher Melissa Milkie. “Once it’s spent, we can’t get it back. EVER!" Competition for this finite resource—our time—is intense—especially for those who are both parents and in the workforce. Technology enables some people to work anytime, any place, and many of us do, though a recent study [Read More...]
Heejung Chung – Flexibility Stigma: Why We Think Remote Workers Are Slackers
Despite solid evidence “spanning decades that flexible workers are actually more motivated, more loyal and more committed to their jobs,” Heejung Chung asks, “why do we think they are lazy, not committed, not motivated?" In this very insightful talk, she explores the biases that surround flexible work arguing that this is rooted in our [Read More...]
Scott Schieman – NOT MY NECESSARY EVIL: 10 Bad Vibes About Work
During the pandemic, Scott Schieman notes, “hating your job became cool and quitting became fun and quiet.” Now that the pandemic has ended and the Great Resignation is over, he asks, “How are those anti-work and anti-ambition movements doing?” Watch Scott Schieman’s Big Ideas Talk on the Work and Family Researchers Network Video Channel to find out. The [Read More...]
Cali Yost – Why We Need to Reimagine How, When and Where Work is Done Together
This video of Cali Yost Why We Need to Reimagine How, When and Where Work is Done Together was created at the 2024 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference June 20, 2024 in Montreal Canada. For more than two decades, Cali Williams Yost has been a leading authority on high performance work flexibility. A visionary [Read More...]
Making Flexibility More I-Deal: Advancing Work-Life Equality Collectively
Current research on negotiated individualized flexible work arrangements focuses on highly paid, skilled professional workers. We refer to this as “flexibility through privilege,” the ability to obtain “flexibility I-deals,” due to high labor market power. Yet as work-life tensions grow across occupations globally, most individuals need increased access to flexibility. As the COVID-19 pandemic illuminated, [Read More...]
Work–life balance supportive culture: a way to retain employees in Spanish SMEs
The purpose of this article is to examine the availability of work–life balance (WLB) practices and the role of work–life balance supportive culture (WLBSC) in the retention of employees in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) through job satisfaction and organisational commitment. The organisations are increasingly conscious that the companies’ competitive advantage rests upon the retention [Read More...]
The limitations of overtime limits to reduce long working hours: Evidence from the 2018 to 2021 working time reform in Korea.
This article provides a first assessment of the causal impact of the2018–2021 reform in Korea meant to combat its long working‐hour culture. Thereform consists of lowering the statutory limit on total weekly working hoursfrom 68 to 52. We apply a difference‐in‐difference approach in which we takeadvantage of the stepwise implementation of the reform by firm [Read More...]