Flexible working in the UK and its impact on couples' time coordination.
Flexible working in the UK and its impact on couples' time coordination.
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英国的灵活工作及其对夫妻时间协调的影响。
DOI：
10.1007/s11150-017-9389-6
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
Bryan ML
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作者：
Bryan ML
将工作与家庭的美好时光结合起来的能力是工作与生活平衡概念的核心。利用以前未开发的夫妻工作时间表数据，我们调查了弹性工作对英国夫妇协调日常工作时间表的影响。我们考虑了弹性工作的三个不同维度：每天开始和结束时间的灵活性（弹性时间），全年工作时间的灵活性（年化工作时间），以及工作时间的广义控制。我们的研究表明，拥有弹性工作时间的夫妇在日常工作安排上的协调时间增加了半个到一个小时，这是没有弹性工作时间的夫妇所享受的调整余地的两倍。这种影响是由有孩子的夫妇造成的。与弹性工作制相比，另外两种形式的弹性工作制似乎并没有增加同步时间。我们的研究结果表明，弹性工作时间在缓解有年幼孩子的家庭所面临的工作时间限制方面发挥了重要作用，有效的弹性工作时间安排是那些增加员工而不是雇主灵活性的安排。
The ability to combine work with quality time together as a family is at the heart of the concept of work-life balance. Using previously unexploited data on couples’ work schedules we investigate the effect of flexible working on couples’ coordination of their daily work schedules in the UK. We consider three distinct dimensions of flexible working: flexibility of daily start and finish times (flexitime), flexibility of work times over the year (annualized hours), and generalized control of working hours. We show that having flexitime at work increases a couple’s amount of coordination of their daily work schedules by a half to 1 h, which is double the margin of adjustment enjoyed by couples with no flexitime. The impact is driven by couples with children. In contrast to flexitime, the other two forms of flexible working do not seem to increase synchronous time. Our results suggest that having flexitime plays an important role in relaxing the work scheduling constraints faced by families with young children, and that effective flexible working time arrangements are those that increase the worker’s and not the employer’s flexibility.