What is it about?
24/7 schedules reduce worker's leeway to manage their professional and family responsibilities. Furthermore, when little to none is done in the organization, relationships with supervisors and coworkers become the main source of support for work-family issues. This paper looks at relationships related to work-family strategies of unionized cleaning agents in the transportation industry.
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Why is it important?
This work brings an original insight to the work-family interface literature by looking at its relational aspects. Work-family strategies necessarily involve interactions with coworkers or managers. This paper brings out how some people's work-family balancing may benefit from resources that others cannot access because of their position in a social network in relation with their individual characteristics (gender, ethnicity, language, family situation) or work design.
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I hope this paper inspires organizational interventions looking at increasing workers' leeway for work-family balancing. It may also help interveners, employers, unions and policy makers to understand what obstacles compromise the success of sustainable interventions if they lack taking into considerations the power dynamics or inequalities in resource access that may be related to workplace relationships. More than anything else, this paper is important to me because it brings to the fore work-family issues of workers in jobs that are not enough studied yet generating important work-family difficulties due to their working conditions.
Melanie Lefrancois
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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This page is a summary of: Work/Family Balancing and 24/7 Work Schedules: Network Analysis of Strategies in a Transport Company Cleaning Service: Concilier travail-famille et horaires 24/7: analyse réseau des stratégies au sein du service ..., NEW SOLUTIONS A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, August 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1048291117725718.
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