Institute for Management Science, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria.
Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.
Front Public Health. 2023 Jan 26;10:1035989. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1035989. eCollection 2022.
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) provide employees with (OAWT), which can be seen as a double-edged sword fostering positive as well as negative aspects of flexibility. In our study, we investigated how OAWT relates to different forms of flexible working, work interrupting nonwork behaviors and job satisfaction.
We used a randomized sample of 758 Austrian employees from a broad range of organizations and tested the hypotheses by means of structural equation modeling.
Our findings revealed that OAWT is associated with available flexibility which relates positively to job satisfaction. However, at the same time, it is associated with required flexibility which relates negatively to job satisfaction and positively to work interrupting nonwork behaviors. OAWT has also been found to strengthen the positive relationship between required temporal flexibility and work interrupting nonwork behaviors, and attenuated the negative relationship between required temporal flexibility and job satisfaction.
We discuss the practical implications and develop recommendations on how organizations should deal with OAWT.
信息和通信技术（ICT）为员工提供了（OAWT），这可以被视为一把双刃剑，既能促进灵活性的积极方面，也能带来消极方面。在我们的研究中，我们调查了 OAWT 如何与不同形式的灵活工作、工作中断的非工作行为和工作满意度相关。
我们使用了来自广泛组织的 758 名奥地利员工的随机样本，并通过结构方程建模来检验假设。
我们的研究结果表明，OAWT 与可用的灵活性相关，而可用的灵活性与工作满意度呈正相关。然而，与此同时，它与所需的灵活性相关，而所需的灵活性与工作满意度呈负相关，与工作中断的非工作行为呈正相关。OAWT 还被发现增强了所需时间灵活性与工作中断的非工作行为之间的正相关关系，并减弱了所需时间灵活性与工作满意度之间的负相关关系。
我们讨论了实际意义，并就组织应该如何处理 OAWT 提出了建议。
