Assessing the impact of different workplace flexibilities on workplace stress in the presence of varying degrees of job control

Chad Cotti, M. Ryan Haley and Laurie A. Miller

Applied Economics Letters, 2017, vol. 24, issue 3, 198-201

Abstract: We apply probit and propensity score matching to 1667 respondents from the 2008 National Survey of the Changing Workforce to quantify how workers’ self-reported stress levels vary under two different workplace flexibilities and varying degrees of job control. The first workplace flexibility considered is the ability to easily take time off for personal and family matters; the second is the option of a compressed work week. Our findings suggest that the first flexibility correlates with lower stress reports regardless of job control level. The second flexibility, however, correlates with lower stress levels only for workers with low levels of job control. This suggests that a compressed work week does not reduce stress for workers that already have high levels of job control. The more general conclusion is that some flexibilities are substitutes for job control whereas other are not, assuming the larger goal is the reduction of workplace stress and the various maladies exacerbated by stress.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2016.1176108

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