Navigating the Work–Family Interface in the Digital Era: Challenges and Strategies

Synthèse

The rapid digitalization of work—driven by advances in information and communication technologies, remote and hybrid work arrangements, and GenAI-enabled systems—has fundamentally reshaped the boundaries between work and family domains. While digital tools provide unprecedented flexibility and autonomy, they also blur temporal and spatial boundaries, intensify role demands, and generate new forms of work–family conflict. This transformation is especially salient in knowledge-intensive and digitally-mediated work contexts, where the 'always-on' culture may foster constant connectivity, hinder psychological detachment, and undermine employee well-being and family functioning. At the same time, digitalization presents important opportunities for work–family enrichment. Flexible work arrangements and hybrid models can enhance individuals' capacity to integrate work and family roles, consistent with resource-based perspectives on the work–home interface. However, these benefits are not evenly distributed. Emerging evidence suggests that technostress, digital surveillance, and inequalities in access to flexible work may exacerbate existing disparities, particularly along gender and…

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Thèmes proposés

  • Blurring of work–family boundaries in remote and hybrid work environments
  • Emerging challenges in time–spatially flexible work
  • GenAI use and digital overload, and their spillover effects on family life
  • 'Always-on' work cultures and impacts on recovery and well-being
  • Algorithmic management and implications for job autonomy and control
  • Digital surveillance and privacy concerns in home-based work
  • Gender inequality in digitally mediated work arrangements
  • Individual boundary management strategies in digital contexts
  • GenAI literacy and self-regulation in managing role demands
  • Leadership behaviors that facilitate work–family integration
  • HR practices mitigating digital work–family conflict
  • Designing technology to support boundary control and well-being
  • Time–spatial crafting as a boundary management strategy
  • Work (re)design and home (re)design strategies to re-vitalize work and family life
  • Positive spillover via flexible digital work arrangements
  • Digitally-mediated tools supporting family engagement
  • Hybrid work models and work–family enrichment
  • Reconceptualizing integration in the digital era
  • Micro-transitions between work and family roles across time and space
  • Cross-cultural differences in digital work–family norms
  • Individual differences in digital work–family strategies
  • Institutional and policy influences
  • Multi-level (individual–team–organization) dynamics
  • Longitudinal changes and causal effects in work–family relationships
  • Within-person variability in boundary management across days and situations