Work-life Balance Under Conditions of Changes in the Quality of Working Life
Research Article
Acknowledgments
The work was carried out with the financial support of RFFI, project No. 18-010-00686.
How to Cite
Razumova T.O., Aleshina A.B., Serpikhova M.A. Work-life Balance Under Conditions of Changes in the Quality of Working Life. Living Standards of the Population in the Regions of Russia. 2020. Vol. 16. No. 3. P. 24-37. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/lsprr.2020.16.3.2 (in Russ.).
Abstract
Work-life balance is an indicator of satisfaction with human life as a whole and is becoming more relevant in socioeconomic conditions today. A balance between two important areas of human life can be achieved only with a high quality of working life, but it is now subject to serious fluctuations in conditions of active spread of remote forms of employment.
The article deals with studying the state of work-life balance during the period of changes in the quality of working life due to the pandemic of «Covid-19» and the forced transition to remote work.
In the theoretical part of the article the authors consider approaches to determining the main elements of the quality of working life and their indicators, identifying various aspects of the studying worklife balance. Labour quality indicators usually consider the ratio of working life to non-working life, but in this article the authors give evidence how the quality of working life can influence the achievement of work-life balance. In the practical part of the study, based on the author's survey, the main factors affecting the balance and quality of working life in the context of two-time intervals have been analyzed: before and after introducing of the self-isolation regime. The study has made it possible to determine changes in the work-life balance for different groups of employees due to changes in the main parameters of the quality of working life after the self-isolation regime was introduced and the transition to remote work occurred.
Keywords:
quality of working life, work-life balance, remote work, pandemic, salary, working hours, work in isolation
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Bobkov V.N., Bobkov N.V. Informal Employment: Identifying, Place and Role, Vectors of Transformation. A Discourse at the 14th Annual International Conference of the European Network on Regional Labour Market Monitoring (EN RLMM) (Moskva, 3–4 October 2019) [Neformal’naya zanyatost’: identifikatsiya i vektory preobrazovaniya. Diskurs na 14-oy ezhegodnoy Mezhdunarodnoy konferentsii Evropeyskoy seti monitoringa regional’nogo i mestnogo rynka truda (EN RLMM) (g. Moskva, 3–4 oktyabrya 2019)]. Living Standards of the Population in the Regions of Russia, Vol. 15. No. 4, P.9-20. DOI: 10.24411/1999-9836-2019-10078 (In Russ.).
Zholudeva V.V., Mel'nichenko N.F. Statistical evaluation of the quality of working life of employees in the Russian Federation. Statistika i Ekonomika 2018; (15/4): 42-51. DOI: 10.21686/2500-3925-2018-4-42-51 (In Russ.).
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Razumova T.O., Serpuhova M.A. Work-life balance in the system of labor relations regulation: theory and practice. Problemy teorii i praktiki upravleniya 2020. (5): 15-25. (In Russ.).
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Shevchuk, A., Krasilnikova, A. The impact of non-standard work schedules on the work-life balance: The case of the European social survey in Russia. Zhurnal Issledovanii Sotsial’noi Politiki 2019; 17(2): 223–236. DOI: 10.17323/727-0634-2019-17-2-223-236
Thornthwaite L. Working Time and Work-Family Balance: A Review of Employees' Preferences. Asia Pacific Journal Of Human Resources 2004; 42(2): 166-184. DOI: 10.1177/1038411104045360
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Received: 13.06.2020
Accepted: 14.08.2020
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Razumova, T. O., Aleshina, A. B., & Serpikhova, M. A. (2020). Work-life Balance Under Conditions of Changes in the Quality of Working Life. Living Standards of the Population in the Regions of Russia, 16(3), 24-37. https://doi.org/10.19181/lsprr.2020.16.3.2
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