Despite the growing body of research exploring factors associated with boundary violations, the existing comprehension of this domain needs to be further integrated. Previous studies have largely focused on the ‘net effect’ between variables, leaving the complexity of boundary management tactics uninvestigated. Building on relevant literature and complexity theory, this study intends to consolidate the fragmented views of boundary violation literature by examining how boundary management tactics combined as causal configurations to explain the boundary violations experienced by remote workers. Fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) was employed to analyze data from a sample of 582 Chinese teleworkers. The results from fsQCA results suggest that several boundary management tactic combinations exist to achieve low boundary violations. Two solutions are presented that lead to low work boundary violations and the other two solutions are presented that lead to low family boundary violations in our research. This study contributes to the boundary management literature by adopting a novel methodological approach to unveil the complexity behind the boundary violations experienced by teleworkers. It also offers practical guidance for organizations and teleworkers to optimize the combination of four boundary management tactics in correspondence to low boundary violations.