Flexible employment policies, temporal control and health promoting practices: A qualitative study in two Australian worksites.

ABSTRACT: For four decades, theories of job demand-control have proposed that higher occupational status groups have lower health risks due to the stress accompanying jobs featuring high demands but high control. This research examines whether Flexible Work Arrangements (FWAs) can improve the health prospects of a range of workers by giving greater control over work time arrangements. Our setting is Australia, where FWAs were introduced in 2009. In line with these early studies alongside studies of work-life balance, we expected to observe that workers with access to control over daily work times could better control the activities outside of work that influence chronic disease. Using a practice sociology approach, we compared the accounts of twenty-eight workers in blue and white collar industries

SUBMITTER: Dixon J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6924681 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature