Journal article
Making daily decisions to work from home or to work in the office: The impacts of daily work- and COVID-related stressors on next-day work location
Journal of applied psychology, Vol.106(6), pp.825-838
06/01/2021
DOI: 10.1037/apl0000929
PMID: 34138589
Abstract
To protect workers' safety while gradually resuming on-site operations amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations are offering employees the flexibility to decide their work location on a daily basis (i.e., whether to work from home or to work in the office on a particular day). However, little is known about what factors drive employees' daily decisions to work from home versus office during the pandemic. Taking a social ecological perspective, we conceptualize employees' daily choice of work location (home vs. office) as a way to cope with stressors they have encountered on the previous day, and conducted a daily diary study to examine how five categories of work-related and COVID-related stressors during the pandemic (identified through a pilot interview study) may jointly predict employees' next-day work location. We collected data over five workdays from 127 participants working in a Chinese IT company which allowed employees to choose their work location on a daily basis amid the pandemic. We found that experiencing more work-family boundary stressors and work coordination stressors on a certain day were associated with a greater likelihood of working in the office (vs. at home) on the next day, while experiencing more workload stressors prompted employees to work at home (vs. in the office) on the next day. Furthermore, we found that COVID-19 infection-related stressors moderated the effects of technology stressors and workload stressors on next-day work location. Our research findings offer implications for understanding the driving factors of daily work location choices during and beyond the pandemic. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Making daily decisions to work from home or to work in the office: The impacts of daily work- and COVID-related stressors on next-day work location
- Creators
- Yiduo Shao - Department of Management.Yanran Fang - Department of Leadership and Organizational Management.Mo Wang - University of FloridaChu-Hsiang Daisy Chang - Department of Psychology.Lin Wang - Lingnan University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of applied psychology, Vol.106(6), pp.825-838
- DOI
- 10.1037/apl0000929
- PMID
- 34138589
- ISSN
- 0021-9010
- eISSN
- 1939-1854
- Grant note
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/01/2021
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984380507802771
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