RT Journal Article
T1 Job Quality and Work—Life Balance of Teleworkers
A1 Rodríguez-Modroño, Paula
A1 López Igual, Purificación
K1 Telework
K1 Remote work
K1 Mobile work
K1 Job quality
K1 Working time quality
K1 Work–life balance
K1 Work intensity
K1 Home-based work
AB As telework and mobile work arrangements become more widespread with new advancements in digitalization, these flexible models of work are rapidly expanding to new categories of employees and completely modifying working conditions and job quality. The aim of this study was to assess how particular types of telework affect different dimensions of job quality. We applied multivariable techniques to a sample of 35,765 workers from the Sixth European Working Conditions Survey. Our findings show that gender and types of telework by workplace and ICT-use intensity are crucial factors affecting working conditions and job quality. Occasional teleworkers are the group with the best job quality, while highly mobile teleworkers are those with the worst job quality and work–life balance. Home-based teleworkers, especially women, present better results than highly mobile workers in terms of working time quality and intensity, though in exchange for lower skills and discretion, income, and career prospects. This study contributes to deepening our knowledge on the impacts of flexible arrangements of work, providing an analysis of current data on different dimensions of job quality and work–life balance and including gender as a crucial axis of analysis.
PB MDPI
YR 2021
FD 2021-03-21
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22730
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22730
LA en
NO Rodríguez-Modroño, P.; López-Igual, P. Job Quality and Work—Life Balance of Teleworkers. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 3239. https://doi.org/10.3390/ ijerph18063239
NO El estudio se enmarca dentro del Proyecto Nacional de I+D+i “El futuro del trabajo desde una óptica de género: las mujeres en la 4ª Revolución Industrial”, PID2019-105835RB-I00 (2020-23), financiado por el Programa Estatal de I+D+i orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, y el proyecto “Conciliación en la era del trabajo digital”,PRY074/19 (2020-22), financiado por Fundación Centro de Estudios Andaluces.info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2019-105835RB-I00/ES/EL FUTURO DEL TRABAJO DESDE UNA OPTICA DE GENERO: LAS MUJERES EN LA 4ª REVOLUCION INDUSTRIAL/
NO Departamento de Economía, Métodos Cuantitativos e Historia Económica
DS RIO
RD May 9, 2026