FW-HTF-P: Managing Time and Work-Life Boundaries in Support of Future Remote Workers

FW-HTF-P：管理时间和工作与生活的界限以支持未来的远程工作者

• 批准号: 2129111
• 负责人: Jason Wiese
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-10-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2129111&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FW; HTF; Managing; Time; Work

Remote work can offer benefits to workers including time flexibility, the elimination of commute time, and expand access to job opportunities by removing geographic and ability-driven constraints. Remote work can also add value for employers in the form of increased productivity and reduced real estate costs. However, removing the physical boundary between work-life and home-life increases the likelihood of work encroaching on family life and family responsibilities interrupting work. The effects of such conflicts negatively impact worker stress, anxiety, satisfaction, exhaustion, and burnout. Not only does computing technology enable remote work, but it also has the potential to empower remote workers with tools to better manage these challenges posed by remote work. This Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier (FW-HTF) Planning Grant project promises to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare by illuminating the challenges that workers encounter as a result of their remote work, and to understand their needs for support and the potential for future technology to facilitate that support. The project will advance the frontiers of science by exploring possible solutions to the threats posed by remote work. Focus will be paid to the challenges by rural workers, who lack equitable access to the employment opportunities afforded urban dwellers, and working women, who are disproportionately responsible for carrying out household and family responsibilities.This project seeks to understand the challenges remote workers face through three primary objectives that will provide a foundation for a long-term research agenda. First, the project team will build relationships with relevant partners and stakeholders. Second, the project gathers data through a diary study and a survey with remote workers and managers of remote workers to understand the challenges that remote workers encounter. Third, the project engages remote workers in design activities to explore possibilities for future technology to better manage remote workers' work-life vs. home-life conflicts. The project will advance understanding of how current remote workers manage issues of family-to-work and work-to-family conflict, and the effects of those conflicts including stress, anxiety, dissatisfaction, exhaustion, and burnout. The project will advance development of a theoretical model of boundary management in remote workers. The project will also contribute to practical outcomes in the form of design insights for the development of future technologies that can support desirable work-life boundaries.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

远程工作可以为员工提供好处，包括时间灵活性，消除通勤时间，并通过消除地理和能力驱动的限制来扩大就业机会。远程工作还可以通过提高生产力和降低真实的房地产成本的形式为雇主增加价值。然而，消除工作-生活和家庭-生活之间的实际界限增加了工作侵犯家庭生活和家庭责任中断工作的可能性。这种冲突的影响负面影响工人的压力，焦虑，满意度，疲惫和倦怠。计算技术不仅可以实现远程工作，而且还可以为远程工作人员提供工具，以更好地管理远程工作带来的挑战。这项“人类技术前沿工作的未来”（FW-HTF）规划补助金项目承诺通过阐明工人因远程工作而遇到的挑战，并了解他们对支持的需求以及未来技术促进这种支持的潜力，来促进国家健康，繁荣和福利。该项目将探索解决远程工作所构成威胁的可能办法，从而推进科学前沿。该项目将重点关注农村劳动者和职业妇女所面临的挑战，农村劳动者无法平等地获得城市居民所享有的就业机会，职业妇女承担着过多的家务和家庭责任，该项目通过三个主要目标来了解偏远地区劳动者面临的挑战，这将为长期研究议程奠定基础。首先，项目小组将与相关合作伙伴和利益攸关方建立关系。其次，该项目通过日记研究和对远程工作者和远程工作者的管理者的调查来收集数据，以了解远程工作者遇到的挑战。第三，该项目让远程工作者参与设计活动，探索未来技术的可能性，以更好地管理远程工作者的工作与生活以及家庭与生活的冲突。该项目将进一步了解当前远程工作者如何管理家庭与工作和工作与家庭冲突的问题，以及这些冲突的影响，包括压力，焦虑，不满，疲惫和倦怠。该项目将推动远程工作者边界管理理论模型的发展。该项目还将以设计见解的形式为未来技术的发展做出实际贡献，这些技术可以支持理想的工作-生活边界。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。