The home as a workplace: work-family interaction and psychological well-being in telework.
Home-based telework is a growing phenomenon with great potential to affect employees' psychological well-being. Although prior studies show both positive and negative effects on work-family interaction, conclusions are limited by the way telework, well-being, and work-family interaction have been modeled. The authors present a conceptual framework that describes telework as a multidimensional phenomenon and separates the effects of the home environment from those of distance from the organization. Propositions concerning work-family interaction are developed from P. Warr's (1987) model of the environmental antecedents of well-being, prior telework studies, and the work-family literature. Spillover between work and nonwork domains of well-being is discussed, and suggestions for future research on this complex issue are presented.
Standen
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School of Management, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. p.standen@cowan.edu.au
Daniels
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Lamond
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D005195:Family Relations; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011788:Quality of Life; D012649:Self Concept; D013685:Telecommunications; D017132:Workplace