Working from home and dissolution of boundaries: A question of company design? The relationship between company-agreed and non-agreed working from home and strain-based work-home conflicts by gender.

Abstract

Research has not yet considered framework conditions under which people work from home. This article looks at employees with office jobs and differentiates between company-agreed and non-agreed working from home concering stress-based work-home conflicts (WHK), represented by poorer switching off from work. Analyses of the data from the BAuA Working Time Survey 2019 show that working from home is as-sociated with increased WHK. Employees with a company agreement to work from home are less often affected by WHK. Recording working time also reduces the risk of WHK. Women have a higher WHK, especially without an agreed working from home.