Social relations and employees' rejection of working from home: A social exchange perspective

IF 4.5 3区管理学 Q1 ERGONOMICS

New Technology Work and Employment Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI:10.1111/ntwe.12247

Alexandra Mergener, Miriam Trübner

引用次数: 5

Abstract

Why do employees prefer working on-site rather than working from home (WfH)? This article examines how personal concerns at the level of social relationships affect rejection of WfH. Using a large-scale representative survey of employees in Germany (N = 4448), we apply logistic regression analyses to examine, first, the association between employees' social relationships at work and rejection of WfH and, second, the moderating effects of social relations in the private sphere. Results indicate that the quality of the working atmosphere with colleagues and the supervisor is a motive for rejecting WfH, more so for people living alone than for couples and families. Changes in working culture due to widespread use of new technology and digital mobile devices and, not least, the extensive experiences with WfH during the Covid-19 pandemic, highlight the relevance of considering employees' workplace preferences in future research.

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社会关系与员工拒绝在家工作：一个社会交换视角

为什么员工更喜欢在现场工作而不是在家工作（WfH）？本文探讨了社会关系层面的个人关注如何影响对WfH的拒绝。通过对德国员工的大规模代表性调查（N=4448），我们应用逻辑回归分析来检验，首先，员工在工作中的社会关系与拒绝WfH之间的关系，其次，私人领域的社会关系的调节作用。结果表明，与同事和主管的工作氛围质量是拒绝WfH的动机，与夫妻和家庭相比，独居者更是如此。由于新技术和数字移动设备的广泛使用，以及新冠肺炎大流行期间WfH的广泛经验，工作文化发生了变化，这突出了在未来研究中考虑员工工作偏好的相关性。

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来源期刊

New Technology Work and Employment Multiple-

CiteScore

10.50

自引率

15.50%

发文量

期刊介绍： New Technology, Work and Employment presents analysis of the changing contours of technological and organisational systems and processes in order to encourage an enhanced and critical understanding of the dimensions of technological change in the workplace and in employment more generally. The journal is eclectic and invites contributions from across the social sciences, with the primary focus on critical and non-managerial approaches to the subject. It has the aim of publishing papers from perspectives concerned with the changing nature of new technology and workplace and employment relations. The objective of the journal is to promote deeper understanding through conceptual debate firmly rooted in analysis of current practices and sociotechnical change.