Rodríguez-Modroño Paula, López-Igual Purificación
Department of Economics, Quantitative Methods and Economic History, Pablo de Olavide University, 41002 Seville, Spain.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Mar 21;18(6):3239. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18063239.
As telework and mobile work arrangements become more widespread with new advancements in digitalization, these flexible models of work are rapidly expanding to new categories of employees and completely modifying working conditions and job quality. The aim of this study was to assess how particular types of telework affect different dimensions of job quality. We applied multivariable techniques to a sample of 35,765 workers from the Sixth European Working Conditions Survey. Our findings show that gender and types of telework by workplace and ICT-use intensity are crucial factors affecting working conditions and job quality. Occasional teleworkers are the group with the best job quality, while highly mobile teleworkers are those with the worst job quality and work-life balance. Home-based teleworkers, especially women, present better results than highly mobile workers in terms of working time quality and intensity, though in exchange for lower skills and discretion, income, and career prospects. This study contributes to deepening our knowledge on the impacts of flexible arrangements of work, providing an analysis of current data on different dimensions of job quality and work-life balance and including gender as a crucial axis of analysis.
随着远程工作和移动工作安排随着数字化的新进展而变得更加普遍，这些灵活的工作模式正在迅速扩展到新的员工类别，并彻底改变工作条件和工作质量。本研究的目的是评估特定类型的远程工作如何影响工作质量的不同维度。我们对来自第六次欧洲工作条件调查的35765名工人样本应用了多变量技术。我们的研究结果表明，性别以及按工作场所和信息通信技术使用强度划分的远程工作类型是影响工作条件和工作质量的关键因素。偶尔进行远程工作的人工作质量最佳，而流动性极高的远程工作者工作质量最差，工作与生活的平衡也最差。在家工作的远程工作者，尤其是女性，在工作时间质量和强度方面比流动性极高的工作者表现更好，不过作为交换，他们的技能、自主权、收入和职业前景较低。本研究有助于深化我们对灵活工作安排影响的认识，对工作质量和工作与生活平衡不同维度的当前数据进行分析，并将性别作为关键分析轴纳入其中。
