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  1. Antecedents and Outcomes of Work-Life Balance While Working from Home

    The struggle to balance work and family life during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights based on the situations of working women in Delhi. Journal of Family Issues, 1-43. 10.1177/0192513x211058817 [Google Scholar] Taylor S. E., Stanton A. L. (2007). Coping resources, coping processes, and mental health.

  2. Work-Life Balance During COVID-19 Pandemic and Remote Work: A Systematic Literature Review

    An important element that requires analysis and development of further support schemes is work-life balance. Remote working has caused an accumulation of professional activities in private places ...

  3. A systematic review on the impacts of Covid‐19 on work: Contributions

    4.1. Adapting work to workers. The pandemic has caused a major impact on work, impelling managers to change work organization and production systems. As advised by ergonomics, this should be done by adapting work to workers and seeking a balance between system performance and human wellbeing (IEA, 2020). This concept can be applied to all ...

  4. PDF COVID-19 and the Workplace: Implications, Issues, and Insights for

    trends that were already underway involving the migration of work to online or virtual environments. A key difference when considering research on practices such as Work From Home (WFH) prior to the pandemic, though, is that WFH was previously often responsive to employee preferences but COVID-19 forced many into Mandatory Work From Home (MWFH).

  5. Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on work and private life, mental well

    Background The COVID-19 crisis has radically changed the way people live and work. While most studies have focused on prevailing negative consequences, potential positive shifts in everyday life have received less attention. Thus, we examined the actual and perceived overall impact of the COVID-19 crisis on work and private life, and the consequences for mental well-being (MWB), and self-rated ...

  6. Work, life and COVID‐19: a rapid review and practical recommendations

    Work and non‐work demands during the COVID ‐19 pandemic. Work‐family scholars have, for several decades, assessed how workers manage work-family conflict, a form of inter‐role conflict that occurs when time‐based (e.g. working overtime), strain‐based (e.g. work pressures) or behavior‐based (e.g. aggressive leadership style) demands of the work (family) role conflict with those ...

  7. Work-Life Balance of the Employed Population During the Emergency

    So far, global research on employees' work-life balance during the COVID-19 emergency situation has shown a similar trend, i.e., due to the COVID-19 pandemic the burden of household responsibilities on women significantly increased, especially if they had minor children.

  8. [PDF] "New normal" at work in a post-COVID world: work-life balance and

    The coronavirus pandemic has interrupted labor markets, triggering massive and instant series of experimentations with flexible work arrangements, and new relationships to centralized working environments. These approaches have laid the basis for the "new normal," likely extending into the organization of work in the post-pandemic era. These new arrangements, especially flexible work ...

  9. PDF Investigating the Post-pandemic Remote Work Effect on Work-life Balance

    Job satisfaction is an important indicator of better work-life balance. When employees get more time to fulfill their family responsibility Michal Beňo & Kateřina Křížová (2022) and (Saxena Kokila et al., 2022). Remote Work and Work-life Balance Most of the research after screening the data shows that there is a positive relation

  10. Learning from work-from-home issues during the COVID-19 pandemic ...

    During the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, many employees have switched to working from home. Despite the findings of previous research that working from home can improve productivity, the scale, nature, and purpose of those studies are not the same as in the current situation with the COVID-19 pandemic. We studied the effects that three stress relievers of the work-from ...

  11. Work and worker health in the post-pandemic world: a public health

    The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of work in shaping population health and wellbeing. This Viewpoint applies a multilevel systems framework to assist in understanding the diverse and complex interactions of forces affecting worker health and wellbeing, and how trending changes in employment and working conditions have been accelerated by the pandemic. Government agencies ...

  12. Work-Life Balance and Employee Satisfaction during COVID-19 Pandemic

    The concept of work-life balance derives from the vision that professional life and personal life are two elements that balance each other synergistically in the development of an individual. Work-life balance can positively and negatively influence employees' performance through employee satisfaction. Using the structural equation modeling (SEM) method (partial least squares), we ...

  13. Ten work-life balance tips for researchers based at home during the

    Take regular breaks. Just like at the office or in the lab, remember to get up and move around. I try to limit the time I spend reading the news and on social media during my breaks, particularly ...

  14. PDF Remote-working Employees' Well-being and Job- Effectiveness During the

    sites, hotels, and airports before the pandemic but mainly from home during the pandemic. Due to the nature of the work, the research participants are also required to work with people in often different time zones when the office is not open. Well-being. In their theoretical review , Taris and Schaufeli (2015) highlighted that individual -

  15. Work-life Balance During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    The article is a discussion concerning the essence and importance of reconciliation between work and family life during the COVID-19 pandemic The lack of harmony between various spheres of life brings many negative consequences, both at the micro (individual, organizational) as well as macro (society) level. Too many hours spent at work can lead to employee fatigue, dissatisfaction and ...

  16. Work-Life Balance and Productivity Among Academic Faculty During the

    Background: For faculty in academic health sciences, the balance between research, education, and patient care has been impeded by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This study aimed to identify personal and professional characteristics of faculty to understand the impact of the pandemic on faculty and consequent policy implications.

  17. Employees' Work-Life Balance Reviewed From Work From Home Aspect During

    The COVID-19 pandemic suddenly made the company inevitably has to run its operational activities in a way of work from home. The sudden change in the operational activity system can have an impact on the work-life balance of employees. In this study, the researchers wanted to know the work-life balance of the employees during the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of work from home. The research ...

  18. Working from home during the COVID‐19 pandemic, its effects on health

    Adverse effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic has been an active area of research in countries such as ... more flexibility, less commute, ability to continue to work during a pandemic), it also has its challenges (e.g., life and work balance, need to set up a proper workplace at home, caregiving responsibilities, mental well‐being, risk of ...

  19. Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Academics' Work-Life Balance

    Achieving a good work-life balance leads to being an employer of choice as well as attracting the best employees. The same can be said of academia, where having a well-balanced work-life balance can contribute to attracting, developing, and retaining suitably qualified academics. In this study, the aim is to examine the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on academics' work-life balance ...

  20. Work Life balance during Covid-19 Lockdown: Experiences of Women

    The paper aims to gain in-depth understanding of the experiences of women academicians regarding their work-life balance during COVID-19 pandemic. We have used the qualitative research approach to explore and analyze the challenges faced by the women working in higher education department to balance work and life during COVID-19 pandemic.

  21. Frontiers

    1 Business and Society Process Research Center, Rezekne Academy of Technologies, Rezekne, Latvia; 2 Institute of Occupational Safety and Environmental Health, Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia; All the employees face the challenge of finding the right work-life balance. The ability of employees to deal with the successful combining of work, family responsibilities, and personal life is ...

  22. The Workplace and Work-Life Balance during the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Theoretical background: The article presents the results of research on the relationship between the workplace and work-life balance experienced by employees. In the article, the workplace is understood as a physical space where employees are located. The first part of the article presents the results of the analysis of the literature on the subject related to the key issues. The subsequent ...

  23. Work-Life Balance and Mental Health Needs of Health Professionals

    The highest effect on work-life balance was caused by work addiction. Moreover, work addiction had a moderate effect on mental health needs. As a result, the current study showed that work-life balance, work addiction, and the need for mental health were affected during the COVID-19 pandemic.