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

远程工作可以给员工带来很多好处，包括时间灵活性，消除通勤时间，并通过消除地理和能力限制来扩大获得工作机会的机会。远程工作还可以通过提高生产力和降低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物理界限增加了工作侵犯家庭生活和家庭责任打断工作的可能性。这些冲突对员工的压力、焦虑、满足感、疲惫和倦怠产生负面影响。计算技术不仅使远程工作成为可能，而且还为远程工作者提供了更好地管理远程工作带来的挑战的工具。“人类技术前沿工作的未来”（FW-HTF）规划拨款项目承诺，通过阐明工人因远程工作而遇到的挑战，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，来促进国家的健康、繁荣和福利。该项目将通过探索远程工作带来的威胁的可能解决方案来推进科学前沿。将把重点放在农村工人和职业妇女所面临的挑战上，农村工人无法公平地获得城市居民所能获得的就业机会，而职业妇女承担着不成比例的家务和家庭责任。该项目旨在通过三个主要目标了解远程工作者面临的挑战，这些目标将为长期研究议程奠定基础。首先，项目团队将与相关的合作伙伴和利益相关者建立关系。其次，该项目通过日记研究和对远程工作者和远程工作者管理人员的调查收集数据，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生活与家庭生活冲突。该项目将促进对当前远程工作者如何处理家庭对工作和工作对家庭冲突问题的理解，以及这些冲突的影响，包括压力、焦虑、不满、疲惫和倦怠。该项目将促进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。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

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.