The future of working: a 2020 perspective on loneliness. The impact of home and work demands, working from home and having children on loneliness via work-life balance

• Autor(a) principal: Gröbel, Niklas Konstantin Bernhard
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/127592
• topic: Home demands; Work demands; Work-life balance; Loneliness; Jd-r model; Covid-19; Working from home; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

This study initiates research on the variablesworkloadand loneliness, and how theyinteract. Workload, expressed in demands,can cause loneliness by weakening a person’s work-life balance. While this has been established already, the recent COVID-19 pandemic has considerably affected employees’work and private livesaspeople work from home and had to reduce their social contacts, which changed the environment previous research was conductedin. Furthermore, this research will look into the area of home demands.Limited research on home demands and, in combination with the new working environment, makes working from home a commonyet underexploredsolution to tackle the pandemic. Further, working from home means mixing the work and the private domain, thereby raising the importance of home demand exploration. Empirical data gathered in a group of 288 respondents shows that work and home demands can lower work-life balance and increase loneliness in directly, but only home demands have a significant direct impact on loneliness and are significant in combination with working from home and having children.