WAF final dissemination conferences
for a summary of the day and ppt slides, please click below
Academic Conference: Flexible working a way of the future?
Policy conference: Flexible working, Time for a Reflection?
Other Upcoming Events
Past Events
WOW/Krifa/EZA workshop on flexible working
6th Feb 2018, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Heejung gave a talk to the World Trade Union congress members on the risks and benefits of flexible working.
E.L.E.N.A. Final project conference
4th-5th December, 2017, Rome Chamber of Commerce, Rome, Italy
Heejung will be giving a talk as a part of the final conference of a “European project experimenting flexible labour tools for enterprises by engaging men and women” , and for the Italian Ministry of Equal opportunities.
IWER seminar
31st of October, 2017, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Heejung will be giving a talk as a part of the Institute for Work and Employment Relations seminar series at Sloan School of Management, MIT on flexible working and work intensity
Better Life Lab panel : Making flexibility the solution not the problem
12:30pm – 2:00pm 26th of October 2017, New America, Washington DC, USA
Heejung will be joining a panel discussion on flexible working as a part of the Better Life Lab event
Population Research Centre Seminar University of Texas, Austin
24th of October, 2017, University of Texas Austin, USA
Heejung will be giving a talk during the UT Austin Population Research Centre
Workshop on Flexicurity Indicators
26-27th September, 2017 European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, IT
Heejung will be presenting a paper and discussing with the EC team on monitoring flexicurity across Europe
European Social Policy Network Conference
14th-17th September 2017, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Heejung presented her work during this conference.
TUC presentation of Better Jobs for Mums and Dads
10th of July, 2017, Congress House, London, UK
Heejung acted as a discussant in the TUC report on work-life balance for core workers
Research on Decent Work Conference
3-5th of July 2017, International Labor Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
Heejung presented two papers during this conference.
TUC Women’s Committee
13th June 2017, Congress House, London, UK
Heejung presented the findings of the WAF project during the TUC Women’s Committee meeting.
ILO Technical Meeting on Working-Time and Work-Life Balance
29th-30th May 2017, International Labor Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
Heejung presented/discussed issues around flexible working and working time issues at this meeting.
7th Community, Work and Family Conference
25-27th of May 2017, University of Milano, Italy
Heejung Chung is organising three session in the theme of “Gender differences in the consequences of flexible working” and “Flexible working and the role of social support” will be presenting two papers in the first session
COFACE Conference Families on the Move
12th of May 2017, Brussels, Belgium
WAF project will be show casing its work in the annual COFACE, Families Europe, Conference
International Labour Process Conference 2017
4-6th April 2017, University of Sheffield, UK
Heejung Chung will be presenting two papers based on the WAF project “Schedule flexibility as a gift or a right? Schedule control, work intensity and the importance of country contexts” and “Flexible working and consequence for work-life balance: importance of gender occupation and family context”
Interdisciplinary Conference on Flexible Work in the Digital Age
23rd-24th of March 2017, University of Mannheim, Germany
Heejung Chung and Mariska van der Horst will present their findings from the WAF project “The consequences of flexible working and the role of gender and parental status in the UK”
Kent Global Skills Award Programme talk
13th of February 2017, University of Kent, UK
Heejung Chung will present some findings for her lecture “Flexible Working: The way of the future”
WAF Project Third Policy Advisory Board Meeting
23rd November 2016 – London School of Economics
The third meeting of the Policy Advisory Board will bring together members from key national and international organisations representing both employers and employees, and non-governmental organisations. WAF Project Principal Investigator, Heejung Chung, will present initial findings of the research, and will discuss with the group plans for the final dissemination conference.
Oxford Sociology Department Seminar
24th of October, 2016, University of Oxford, UK
Heejung Chung will present on a number of findings from the WAF project.
2016 ILREA European Regional Congress
8th – 10th September 2016, University of Milano, Italy
Heejung Chung will be presenting two papers based on the WAF project “Flexible Working and Consequence for Work-Life Balance: Importance of Gender Occupation and Family Context ” and “Schedule Flexibility and Work-Family Conflict: The Importance of Country Contexts”
2016 Work, Employment & Society Conference
6th – 8th September, 2016, University of Leeds, UK
Mariska van der Horst will be presenting a paper based on the WAF project “Gendered discrepancies in the outcomes of flexible working: the case of overtime and income in the UK”
2016 Annual ESPAnet conference
1st – 3rd September, 2016, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Heejung Chung will present a paper based on the WAF project “Schedule Flexibility and Work-Family Conflict: The Importance of Country Contexts”
3rd International Sociological Association forum of Sociology
10th – 14th July, 2016, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Mariska van der Horst has presented a paper based on the WAF project “Labour market intensity of mothers after childbirth on use and access to flexible working arrangements”
2016 Work, Family Researcher’s Network Conference on “Careers, Care, and Life-Course ‘Fit:’ Implications for Health, Equality, and Policy”
23rd -25th June, 2016 – Capital Hilton hotel, Washington DC, U.S.A.
Heejung Chung has organised two sessions “Symposium: The Economic and Public Policy of Work and Family” and “Thematic Session: Consequences of Flexible Working” and presented two papers based on the WAF project “Flexible Working and Consequence for Work-Life Balance: Importance of Gender Occupation and Family Context ” and “Schedule Flexibility and Work-Family Conflict: The Importance of Country Contexts”
Eastern ARC Gender Role attitudes Workshop
31st of March – 1st of April 2016 – University of Kent, United Kingdom
Mariska van der Horst presented a paper based on the WAF project “Impact of access to flexible working arrangements on labour market intensity of mothers after child birth” in the Eastern ARC Workshop at University of Kent (link to ppt)
CERIC seminar series
25th November 2015 – University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Heejung presented a paper based on the WAF project – “High performance or family friendly strategies? Explaining the use and provision of flexitime across Europe” in the Leed’s Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change Seminar Series.
2015 Annual ESPAnet Conference: THE LOST AND THE NEW WORLDS OF WELFARE
3-5 September 2015 – University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Heejung will present several papers, including “Crowding in or out of occupational welfare: Explaining the variation in the access to flexitime across 27 European countries” and “Inclusion of company level provision in the study of family policies: the case of schedule flexibility across Europe”.
AIAS Lunch Seminar Series
27th August 2015 – University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Heejung will present “Crowding in or out of occupational welfare: Explaining the provision of flexitime across Europe”.
2015 SASE Annual Conference
2-4 July 2015 – London School of Ecoomic, London, UK
Heejung presented her papers ” Explaining the provision of flexitime in companies across Europe (in the pre- and post-crisis Europe): role of national contexts”, and “Gendered nature of the provision and use of flexitime: when do women get access to flexitime?”
2015 6th International Community, Work and Family conference
19-22 May 2015 – Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden
Heejung organised a symposium “The Gendered nature of flexible working” during this conference. The syposium consisted of papers from Heejung “Gendered nature of the provision and use of flexitime”, “Gendered nature of the cost and benefits of flexitime and autonomous hours ” Yvonne Lott (WSI), “Gender nature of the use and influence of part-time work on job satisfaction” Clare Lyonette (University of Warwich) and Tracy Warren(University of Nottingham), and “Working time regimes and gender inequality” Rosella Cicca(Queens University Belfast).
WAF Project Second Policy Advisory Board Meeting
13 March 2015 – London School of Economics
The second meeting of the Policy Advisory Board brought together members from key national and international organisations representing both employers and employees, and non-governmental organisations who research, advocate and implement labour market policy. WAF Project Principal Investigator, Heejung Chung, presented initial findings from the first phase of the research, examining provision of flexitime in companies across Europe and the gendered nature of flexitime.
Worldwide Universities Network “Flexible Careers Network” Workshop
14 November 2014 – University of Leeds, UK
Heejung presented her paper “Explaining the provision of flexitime in companies across Europe (pre- and post- crisis)”
ESPAnet Conference
4-6th September 2014 – Oslo, Norway
Heejung presented the first findings of the WAF project on which companies are more likely to provide flexitime to its workers and what can explain for this.
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There is an increasing demand for a better balance between work and life for workers. Given the negative consequence of the lack of a better work-life balance can have on the individual, their families, company as well as for society (Blau, 1985; Dex and Scheibl, 2001; Greenhaus et al., 2006; Hammer et al., 2003) this is a demand that cannot be ignored. One way of simultaneously increasing work-life balance while keeping costs down for both governments and companies, is the use of flexible working-time arrangements (flexi-time). Flexi-time is gaining a major role in occupational welfare, but not much is known about its provision, especially at a cross-national comparative manner, due to lack of data.
This paper will examine the provision of flexi-time in companies across 30 European countries using the European Company Survey for 2004 and 2009. It will apply a multilevel modelling technique where companies are considered to be nested in countries and national and company level characteristics are included in the model simultaneously. The first question asked in this paper is which employers are the ones that provide flexi-time, and whether it can be explained by structural and/or agency factors. Due nature of the work done in the company as well as the financial and administrative capacity of the company, the provision of flexi-time will vary across companies of different sizes, sector and workforce composition (Chung, 2009; Golden, 2009). However, industrial relations systems within the company such as the existence of an employee representative body, social dialogue practices, and manager’s attitude towards work-life balance issues may better explain the provision (Seeleib-Kaiser and Fleckenstein, 2009). National context such as institutional frameworks, union strengths, cultural norms on work and gender relations and economic cycles can explain the cross-national differences in the extent to which flexi-time is provided (Berg et al., 2003; Chung, 2008). From this the question arises what can explain for the current level and the changes in the provision of flexi-time over the past 5 years.
Preliminary analysis results show that on average more than half of all companies with more than 10 employees have some sort of flexi-time arrangement in place in 2009. As expected both structural factors such as the sector of activity, whether it is a public sector, the size and workforce composition, as well as agency factors, existence of an ER and industrial relations characteristics can explain the provision of flexitime to certain degree. (The paper will go on to examine which factors can best explain the provision).
There are large cross-national variances in the number of companies that offer flexi-time and the number of workers covered by the scheme. There is evidence to show that the use of flexi-time has increased from 2004 to 2009 although the proportion of workforce covered within each company did not seem to increase dramatically. This indicates that there seems to be a limitation to applying flexi-time to certain sub sections of the workforce. The paper will go on to examine the role of the crisis, the development trends of family policies at the country level, and other factors in explaining the expansion of flexitime provision across countries.
European Employers’ Forum for Work-Life Balance
8-9th September 2014 – Helsinki, Finland
The European Employers’ Forum will bring together employers from the private, public and third sectors to discuss family friendly workplace measures for offering a better work-life balance for their employees. The core focus of the Forum will be on sharing knowledge, developing good practices and identifying ways to take action and drive change on work-life balance strategies as well as programmes.
It was co-organised by Policy Advisory Board members COFACE.
WAF Project First Academic Advisory Board Meeting
WFRN Conference on Changing Work and Family Relationships in a Global Economy, 21st June 2014 – Millenium Broadway Hotel, New York City, NY, USA
The first meeting of the Academic Advisory Board will bring together leading researchers on issues of work, autonomy, work-life balance and flexible working from around the world. The Advisory Board will have the opportunity to provide feedback and help shape the research aims, objectives and methods to ensure that the Work, Autonomy, Flexibility Project delivers timely outputs for a range of stakeholders.
WAF Project First Policy Advisory Board Meeting
21 May 2014 – London School of Economics
The first meeting of the Policy Advisory Board will bring together members from key UK Government departments alongside national and international organisations representing both employers and employees, and non-governmental organisations who research, advocate and implement labour market policy. The Advisory Board will have the opportunity to provide feedback and help shape the research aims, objectives and methods to ensure that the Work, Autonomy, Flexibility Project delivers timely outputs for a range of stakeholders.
Eastern ARC conference
28th March 2014
Dr. Chung presented the first outline of this project during this conference.