Hartner-Tiefenthaler, M, Mostafa, AMS orcid.org/0000-0001-5701-1630 and Koeszegi, ST (2023) The double-edged sword of online access to work tools outside work: The relationship with flexible working, work interrupting nonwork behaviors and job satisfaction. Frontiers in Public Health, 10. ISSN 2296-2565
Abstract
Introduction: Information and communication technologies (ICTs) provide employees with online access to work tools outside work (OAWT), which can be seen as a double-edged sword fostering positive as well as negative aspects of flexibility. In our study, we investigated how OAWT relates to different forms of flexible working, work interrupting nonwork behaviors and job satisfaction.
Method: We used a randomized sample of 758 Austrian employees from a broad range of organizations and tested the hypotheses by means of structural equation modeling.
Results: Our findings revealed that OAWT is associated with available flexibility which relates positively to job satisfaction. However, at the same time, it is associated with required flexibility which relates negatively to job satisfaction and positively to work interrupting nonwork behaviors. OAWT has also been found to strengthen the positive relationship between required temporal flexibility and work interrupting nonwork behaviors, and attenuated the negative relationship between required temporal flexibility and job satisfaction.
Implications: We discuss the practical implications and develop recommendations on how organizations should deal with OAWT.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 Hartner-Tiefenthaler, Mostafa and Koeszegi. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | work connectivity behavior, online access to work tools outside work, flexible working, blurred boundaries, work interruption nonwork behaviors, job satisfaction |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) > Management Division Organizational Behaviour (LUBS) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 03 Mar 2023 10:54 |
Last Modified: | 03 Mar 2023 10:54 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Frontiers Media |
Identification Number: | 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1035989 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:196960 |