Work, life and COVID-19: a rapid review and practical recommendations for the post-pandemic workplace

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Chan, Xi Wen Carys
Shang, Sudong
Brough, Paula
Wilkinson, Adrian
Lu, Chang-qin
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2022
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Remote working because of the COVID-19 pandemic has eroded boundaries between work and home, necessitating the need to evaluate the long-term impacts of these changes and mitigate any negative effects on workers' work-life experiences. To do so, we reviewed and examined work-life research published since the start of the pandemic. The review yielded a sample of 303 work-life scholarly articles, with three common themes: 1) work-life boundaries have become more permeable, with behavior-based and time-based work-life conflict emerging as the more salient forms of work-life conflict; 2) technical work demands have increased, as employees grapple with techno-invasion, techno-overload and techno-complexity; and 3) psychological and emotional work demands have intensified. Based on these key findings, we call for multi-level and multi-agency responses to deal with the complex, diverse nature of work-life demands. Specifically, we offer recommendations at the individual-, team/organizational- and societal/governmental-levels to enhance employees' work and non-work lives after the pandemic.

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Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources

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© 2022 The Authors. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.

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Human resources management

Organisational behaviour

Human resources and industrial relations

Strategy, management and organisational behaviour

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Chan, XWC; Shang, S; Brough, P; Wilkinson, A; Lu, C-Q, Work, life and COVID-19: a rapid review and practical recommendations for the post-pandemic workplace, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 2022

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