To be able to combine work with activities and duties outside the workplace successfully, employees need time adequacy. Time adequacy is the fit between working time and all other time demands and can be achieved through working time flexibility and autonomy. However, past research has shown...

This study examines the effect of working time flexibility and autonomy on time adequacy using the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) in 2010. Drawing on gender theory and welfare state theory, gender differences and the institu-tional contexts of the UK, Sweden, Germany and the...

Using data from the 2015/2016 German Family Panel (pairfam), this article examines the intra-individual and crossover effects of work contact in leisure time on satisfaction with work-life balance. Results of mediation analyses show that individuals who have work contact in leisure time are less...

The present study investigates the effects of flexible work arrangements on work-to-home conflict for women and men in Germany. It analyzes (1) how schedule control, i.e. flexitime and working-time autonomy, employer-oriented flexible schedules and telecommuting are related to work-to-home...

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011), the author scrutinizes the relations between women´s and men´s flexibility and autonomy in working time and two central work outcomes: overtime and income. Previously, research on flexibility and...

Die Studie erforscht die betrieblichen Realisierungsbedingungen von lebensphasenorientierten Arbeitszeiten. Den Beschäftigten in Deutschland stehen Arbeitszeitoptionen wie Teilzeit, Elternzeit und weitere Freistellungsregelungen zur Verfügung, um ihre Arbeitszeiten an verschiedene Bedarfe im...

This study examines the extent to which the use of part-time work and parental leave is accepted in German workplaces for women and men as well as various work positions and professions. Interviews were conducted with 95 employees and 26 experts in hospitals, police stations and industrial...

The present study analyzes workers' reasons for not working from home in German workplaces. We ask to what degree cultural barriers, besides technical barriers, are reasons for not working from home. The analyses are based on the second wave (2014-15) of the German Linked Personnel Panel (LPP)....

2018 sind die Frauen im Zentrum der Digitalisierungsdebatte angekommen: Auf dem Weltwirtschaftsforum in Davos drehte sich alles um ihre zukünftigen Chancen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Wird die Digitalisierung die Arbeitswelt geschlechtergerechter machen - oder wird genau das Gegenteil eintreten? Das...

2018 sind die Frauen im Zentrum der Digitalisierungsdebatte angekommen: Auf dem Weltwirtschaftsforum in Davos drehte sich alles um ihre zukünftigen Chancen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Wird die Digitalisierung die Arbeitswelt geschlechtergerechter machen - oder wird genau das Gegenteil eintreten? Das...