The enigmatic effects of telework on work-family conflict: Investigating boundary conditions
Start Date
22-2-2025 3:30 PM
End Date
22-2-2025 4:00 PM
Description
Telework has been widely used after the COVID-19 pandemic, making work away from the office possible. Although telework has potential beneficial effects due to the compatibility, it can also interfere with nonwork lives. Indeed, previous studies have showed mixed effects of telework on work-family conflict. To clarify the ambiguity, we conducted two studies on the boundary conditions of the relationship between telework and work-family conflict. In the first study conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic (January 2022), we examined environmental characteristics called permeability and flexibility as the moderators, proposed by the work-home border theory, among 219 Korean employees who teleworked at least once a week. In the second study, we added individual differences regarding segmentation preference as the moderator and tested three-way interactions among telework, work-home border characteristics (permeability or flexibility), and segmentation preference in explaining work-family conflict. The data were collected from 310 Korean employees who responded after the COVID-19 pandemic (August 2024). The results demonstrated that the effect of telework could depend on personal characteristics concerning individual preference as well as environmental characteristics concerning the border between work and home.
Speaker
Prof PARK Hyung In
Associate Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
After double-majoring in psychology and sociology for the undergraduate degree at Yonsei University located in Seoul, South Korea, Dr. Park pursued clinical psychology at the same institution for the master's degree. After spending a transitional period in one leadership center and two human resources consulting firms in Seoul, she achieved her doctoral degree in industrial and organizational psychology from Central Michigan University in the United States. From 2012 to 2017, she worked at Chonnam National University as a assistant/associate professor of Psychology. Afterwards, she moved to Sungkyunkwan University and is working as an associate professor since September 2017 to the present. She is also serving as an editor-in-chief of the Korean Journal of Industrial and Organizational Psychology and as an associate editor of the International Journal of Stress Management. Her current research focuses on illuminating the mechanisms of stressor-strain relationships at work. Topics include work-nonwork interface, recovery from job burnout, work engagement, and person-environment fit.
Co-author(s)
Seunghee LEE, Minjae LEE
Document Type
Keynote speech
Recommended Citation
Park, H.-i. (2025, February 22). The enigmatic effects of telework on work-family conflict: Investigating boundary conditions. Presentation presented at the International Conference and Workshop on Health and Well-being in the Digital Era. Sun Yat-sen University, China.
The enigmatic effects of telework on work-family conflict: Investigating boundary conditions
Telework has been widely used after the COVID-19 pandemic, making work away from the office possible. Although telework has potential beneficial effects due to the compatibility, it can also interfere with nonwork lives. Indeed, previous studies have showed mixed effects of telework on work-family conflict. To clarify the ambiguity, we conducted two studies on the boundary conditions of the relationship between telework and work-family conflict. In the first study conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic (January 2022), we examined environmental characteristics called permeability and flexibility as the moderators, proposed by the work-home border theory, among 219 Korean employees who teleworked at least once a week. In the second study, we added individual differences regarding segmentation preference as the moderator and tested three-way interactions among telework, work-home border characteristics (permeability or flexibility), and segmentation preference in explaining work-family conflict. The data were collected from 310 Korean employees who responded after the COVID-19 pandemic (August 2024). The results demonstrated that the effect of telework could depend on personal characteristics concerning individual preference as well as environmental characteristics concerning the border between work and home.