Working time will increase if you do "flexible labor"

ByAllispossible.org.uk

Heejung Chung, professor of sociology at Kent UniversityThe Hans Böckler FoundationAccording to the research done by Yvonne Lott, a researcher at the University of Tokyo, the person who can decide the schedule of work such as "When and how long will you work" often becomes overworked . It was discovered by analyzing German workers 'data over several years, and of course the workers' positions and types of work were taken into account in the analysis. And the person with the longest working hours seems to be "people who can control all their working hours".

Gender Discrepancies in the Outcomes of Schedule Control on Overtime Hours and Income in Germany | European Sociological Review | Oxford Academic
https://academic.oup.com/esr/article/32/6/752/2525493/Gender-Discrepancies-in-the-Outcomes-of-Schedule

Flexible working is making us work longer - Quartz
https://qz.com/765908/flexible-working-is-making-us-work-longer/


The background of this behavior pattern seems to have several causes, one of which is "gift exchange theory", workers who are given freedom as "gifts" from employers, to respond to trust The psychology trying to work works.

Meanwhile, it is often that employees are given "freedom to work at any time" as salaries are "task-based", and wages may be affected by outcomes. In this case, workers may devote much time to work, ignoring labor laws, in order to leave better results than other employees. Also, if you give priority to work rather than spend time with your family or enjoy leisure time, you will be able to increase your work time when you can control your working hours yourself. There is the possibility that there is a paradox that gets control of working hours by putting effort into work and getting more control by getting control.

However, it shows that it becomes easier to balance the life work by becoming able to take control of working hoursResearch results also exist. This study also showed that income increases by allowing people to work flexibly.

And it is also found that the influence of 'flexible way of working' has differences between men and women. For example, a woman working part-time, unlike men, does not overwork even if flexible working way is possible. This is thought that women working part-time have circumstances of their families and there is a reason for not being able to work for a long time. To that evidence, if a woman working full time gains a flexible way of working, even if she is a mother, she seems to overwork as much as a man.

ByAndrew Neel

At this time, I understand that "women's work flexibility" is often not given as a reward. This is because researchers are watching that the reason why women get "job flexibility" is because "for their families" and employers tend to think that the women are overworked Even though I do work, I often say that it is not evaluated.

The term "flexible working hours" sounds fascinating, but in fact the workers seek is sought by the French law "The right that workers do not have to look at work e-mails outside work hoursThere is a possibility that it is.