Abstract
Health risks of flexibility of working hours and working place Health risks of flexibility of working hours and working place Recent studies have shown that employees with fixed-term and on-call contracts have higher health risks than employees with indefinite term contracts. This article focuses on another type of flexible labour: home- and telework. It aims to find out whether or not flexibility of working hours and working place interferes with higher health risks as well. Based on panel data analyses of data of the National Survey of Working Conditions the article concludes that place and time independent work leads to lower health risks instead. The sick leave figures of teleworkers appear 0,4 to 0,5 percent point lower than that of similar employees who do not telework. Home- and teleworkers experience more autonomy in their work. Furthermore, they have better relationships with their colleagues and managers. Remote workers encounter, however, more difficulties combining work and care than non-remote workers. They feel they neglect their family or their employer more often.
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