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Title: | Work-life balance, organizations and social sustainability: analyzing female telework in Spain |
Author: | Gálvez Mozo, Ana Tirado, Francisco Martínez Argüelles, María Jesús |
Others: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) |
Citation: | Gálvez Mozo, A., Tirado Serrano, F.J. & Martínez Argüelles, M.J. (2020). Work-life balance, organizations and social sustainability: Analyzing female telework in Spain. Sustainability, 12(9), 1-21. doi: 10.3390/SU12093567 |
Abstract: | The concept of work-life balance has recently established itself as a key component on route maps drawn up in the pursuit of social sustainability, both on a local scale, represented by individual organizations, and on a more general one, represented by global institutions such as the United Nations. Our article analyzes telework's use as a political tool within organizations that either boost or hinder the development of social sustainability. Additionally, we propose the notion of "life sustainability" to analyze how female teleworkers describe the link between specific work cultures and the possibility of fulfilling social sustainability goals in local work environments through the achievement of a good work-life balance. Our research was performed following a qualitative approach, drawing from a sample of 24 individual interviews and 10 focus groups with a total of 48 participants, all of which are female teleworkers with family responsibilities. Our main findings allow us to summarize the interviewees' social perceptions into two categories, which we have dubbed "life sustainability ecologies" and "presence-based ecologies" We conclude by discussing female teleworkers' claim that work-life balance is directly linked to social sustainability and that the latter goal will remain out of reach as long as the issue of balance goes unresolved. |
Keywords: | social sustainability work life balance female teleworkers organizational culture life sustainability ecologies |
DOI: | 10.3390/SU12093567 |
Document type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Version: | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
Issue Date: | 27-Apr-2020 |
Publication license: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ |
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