COVID-19 and Working from Home: Determinants and Consequences of Work-Family and Family-Work Conflicts

Vathsala Wickramasinghe () and I. Nakandala
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Vathsala Wickramasinghe: University of Moratuwa
I. Nakandala: University of Moratuwa

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Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic forced millions of employees worldwide to perform their full-time job tasks remotely from home. creative performance is considered a desirable work outcome expected by organizations, the present study investigated whether the work-family and family-work conflicts mediate the relationship between job conditions experienced by employees while working from home and their creative performance. The study, carried out in Sri Lanka, featured a sample of employees in white-collar or professional positions who carried on with their fulltime jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic working from home. It was found that job conditions (work characteristics, work environment and technical support) significantly negatively related to both work-family conflict and family-work conflict. In addition, the results supported the mediation hypothesis.

Keywords: Flexible Work Arrangements; Pandemic impact on work; Occupational stress; Work-life balance; Teleworking; Remote Work; work performance; working from home; work-family conflict; family-work conflict; COVID-19 pandemic; Pandemic resilience (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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Published in Revista crítica de ciências sociais, 2022, 129, pp.153 - 176. ⟨10.4000/rccs.14021⟩

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DOI: 10.4000/rccs.14021

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