{"id":2215,"date":"2014-02-14T14:30:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T14:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/waf-project\/wordpress\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-03-04T09:20:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T09:20:24","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/waf-project\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One way of simultaneously addressing the work-life balance needs of employees and the productivity needs of employers, while keeping costs down for both governments and companies, is the use of flexible working arrangements i.e., flexi-time. This approach has been supported at the company- national-, and even EU-levels via policies and campaigns, and can provide a good alternative to other more costly work-life balance policies. However, some scholars have shown that schedule flexibility \/ flexi-time\u00a0can lead to spill-overs from work to home, blurring the boundaries between the two spheres leading to negative results for one&#8217;s work-life balance. On the other hand, we also find evidence that flexi-time is especially beneficial for individuals with more household or work demand, or less resources to address them. Despite the mixed results, in-depth evidence based on cross-national data remain lacking and the question of who is really able to benefit (more) from the use of schedule flexibility\/ flexi-time, in what context, has yet to be answered. To provide this much-needed insight the work autonomy flexibility (WAF) project examines the following questions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Who is able to use schedule flexibility (flexi-time)?<\/li>\n<li>Which companies provide them, and why?<\/li>\n<li>What is the impact of schedule flexibility \/ flexi-time on worker&#8217;s work-life balance?<\/li>\n<li>Does this impact differ across different individuals with different family roles, working in different companies, living in different national policy and cultural contexts?<\/li>\n<li>Have these relationships changed over time &#8211; pre and post crisis?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">This study will bring forward a new dimension the study of work-family conflict and the role of working-time flexibility by understanding the dynamics in a wider perspective, which reflects the actual environments individuals and companies are placed in and provide us with new understandings of the role of policies.<\/span><br \/>\nThis project also will be applying state of the art research methods, including Multilevel structural equation modelling and psuedo-panel approaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One way of simultaneously addressing the work-life balance needs of employees and the productivity needs of employers, while keeping costs down for both governments and companies, is the use of flexible working arrangements i.e., flexi-time. This approach has been supported at the company- national-, and even EU-levels via policies and campaigns, and can provide a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":826,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2215","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/waf-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/waf-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/waf-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/waf-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/waf-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/waf-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/waf-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2215\/revisions\/2368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/waf-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}