Artikel
Working-time autonomy as a management practice
Allowing workers to control their work hours (working-time autonomy) is a controversial policy for worker empowerment, with concerns that range from increased shirking to excessive intensification of work. Empirical evidence, however, supports neither view. Recent studies find that working-time autonomy improves individual and firm performance without promoting overload or exhaustion from work. However, if working-time autonomy is incorporated into a system of family-friendly workplace practices, firms may benefit from the trade-off between (more) fringe benefits and (lower) wages but not from increased productivity.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2016 ; Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Labor Standards: Working Conditions
Personnel Economics: General
- Subject
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working from home
self-managed working time
flextime
firm performance
work intensification
family-friendly workplace practices
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Beckmann, Michael
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2016
- DOI
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doi:10.15185/izawol.230
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- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
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Associated
- Beckmann, Michael
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2016
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