Die Regressionsanalysen zeigen, dass die individuumsbezogene Arbeitszeitflexibilität positiv und die betriebsbezogene Arbeitszeitflexibilität negativ mit der Work-Life-Balance der Mitarbeiter zusammenhängt. Die Befragungsdaten wurde mit Hilfe von computergestützten Telefoninterviews erhoben. Wir verwenden Daten von rund 18.000 abhängig Beschäftigten aus der BAuA-Arbeitszeitbefragung 2015 der Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin. This applies to all employees, not only those with a strong preference for separating work and private life.īasierend auf der Border Theory (Clark 2000) ist das Ziel dieser Studie, den Zusammenhang zwischen individuumsbezogener und betriebsbezogener Arbeitszeitflexibilität mit der Work-Life-Balance sowie die Rolle der Präferenz für die Trennung von Arbeit und Privatleben für diesen Zusammenhang zu untersuchen. Employers should grant their employees a certain degree of working time autonomy while keeping organization-oriented working time requirements, such as changes of working time at short notice to accommodate operational demands, to a minimum.

Practical Relevance: Taken together, the study’s findings highlight the importance of the design of flexible working time arrangements for improving employees’ work-life balance. Those with a higher segmentation preference profit only marginally more from individual-oriented working time flexibility and suffer only marginally more from organization-oriented working time flexibility demands. Employees’ individual preferences regarding the segmentation of work and private life only played a minor role. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that individual-oriented working time flexibility was positively related to employees’ work-life balance, whereas organization-oriented working time flexibility had a negative effect.

Survey data were collected through computer-assisted telephone interviews. We use data from around 18,000 employees from the 2015 Working Time Survey of the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in Germany. Based on border theory (Clark 2000), we aim to investigate the relationship between individual-oriented and organization-oriented working time flexibility and employees’ work-life balance, as well as the moderating role of segmentation preference.

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