Occupational Stress, Working from Home, and Job Sustainability

Another Gender Issue

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2064641
AutoresStefania Capecchi (0000-0003-2842-8132, University of Naples Federico II), Francesca Di Iorio (0000-0003-0260-7255, University of Naples Federico II), Nunzia Nappo (0000-0003-2842-6268, University of Naples Federico II)
Ano2024
Volume175
Fascículo3
Páginas1193-1218
Data de publicação2024-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Indicators Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0303-8300 • E-ISSN: 1573-0921
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11205-024-03374-z
OpenAlexW4399901001
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas75

Aim of the paper is to analyse the occurrence of occupational stress across European Union countries, considering gender and job sustainability as determinants, with a specific attention to the effects of home-based work. Although COVID-19 pandemic has brought such issues into a novel spotlight, to detect the response pattern towards occupational stress we chose to employ the latest official data collected by the Sixth European Working Condition Survey developed and carried out in a pre-COVID-19 scenario. This information may provide a reliable picture of working conditions, which are likely to become the 'new normal' across Europe, at least for a subset of workers. Descriptive analyses do not seem to help disclosing any different response behaviour with specific respect to reported stress by gender, even when combined with the condition of working from home. Whereas a noteworthy finding of our study is that results from the implemented ordered probit model display that some differences in the response pattern do exist and are even substantial. A question still arises about whether and to what extent hybrid forms of work are here to stay and even to grow in the post-pandemic period. Some of the critical features of teleworking-from-home emerged during the epidemic indicate that the implementation of policies at a national and, ideally, even supra-national level is clearly necessary. However, since both occupations and company organizations are strongly differentiated, it seems also that the enterprises are allowed some flexibility in defining corporate policies for teleworking practices, especially aiming at providing workers with improved and more sustainable working conditions, such as a less distressing environment and more supportive managerial styles

Business · Environmental health · Human geography · Job satisfaction · Job stress · Occupational stress · Public health · Quality of Life Research · Social science · Sociology · Sustainability · Employment and Welfare Studies · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Retirement, Disability, and Employment · Social Psychology · Workplace Health and Well-being