Effect of employee worktime control on health: a prospective cohort study. [PDF]
Aims:To investigate the health effects of employee worktime control.Methods:Prospective cohort study among 4218 permanent full time municipal employees linking questionnaire data from 1997 and 2000 with sickness absence records from 1997 and 2001. Worktime control was considered high for the highest tertile in both 1997 and 2000, low for the lowest ...
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The Effect of Worktime Control on Overtime Employees' Mental Health and Work-Family Conflict: The Mediating Role of Voluntary Overtime. [PDF]
Overtime has become a widespread phenomenon in the current information age that creates a high speed working pace and fierce competition in the high technology global economy. Based on the time-regulation mechanism and effort-recovery model, we examined the effect of worktime control (WTC) on mental health and work-family conflict (WFC) among overtime ...
Yu J, Leka S.
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The Impacts of Worktime Control in Context
This article examines the relationships between workers’ control over their working time and their well-being, looking at how these relationships differ across a set of health care occupations that are stratified by class, gender, and race (physicians ...
Jackie Stein
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Systematic review on the association between employee worktime control and work–non-work balance, health and well-being, and job-related outcomes [PDF]
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this review was to assess systematically the empirical evidence for associations between employee worktime control (WTC) and work–non-work balance, health/well-being, and job-related outcomes (eg, job satisfaction, job performance).
Hylco H Nijp +4 more
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Worktime control: theoretical conceptualization, current empirical knowledge, and research agenda
Working hours play a crucial role in the life, health, and well-being of workers. Concerning irregular working hours, the recent Fifth European Working Conditions Survey (1) shows that night work is carried out by 19% and shift work by 17% of all workers
Debby GJ Beckers +3 more
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OBJECTIVE: Worktime control (WTC) has been suggested as a tool to reduce employees’ work-home interference and fatigue and improve job motivation. The purpose of this study was twofold: (i) to examine the prevalence of employees’ need for, access to, and
Hylco H Nijp +4 more
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Employee worktime control moderates the effects of job strain and effort-reward imbalance on sickness absence: the 10-town study. [PDF]
Study objective: To examine whether the effects of work stress on sickness absence vary by the level of control the employees have over their working times. Design: Prospective cohort study. A survey of job strain, effort-reward imbalance, and control over daily working hours and days off was carried
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Quick returns, sleep, sleepiness and stress – An intra-individual field study on objective sleep and diary data [PDF]
OBJECTIVES: Quick returns (
Kristin Öster +3 more
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Trajectories of Worktime Control From Midlife to Retirement and Working Beyond Retirement Age [PDF]
Abstract The extent to which long-term individual-oriented flexibility in working hours is associated with working beyond retirement age is not known. The aims of the present study were to identify trajectories of worktime control (WTC) and to examine whether the membership of WTC trajectories was associated with working beyond ...
Virtanen, Marianna +9 more
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OBJECTIVES: Working from home (WfH) is a promising practice that may enable employees to successfully and sustainably combine work and private life. Yet, not every employer facilitates WfH and not every employee has similar needs concerning the practice.
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