dc.description.abstract | As the global epidemic heats up, companies start to change their strategies. Work from home is becoming more and more popular. Compared with the past office methods, working from home will make employees need to switch between the work field and the home field more frequently. It will make the boundaries between family and work, time and space are ambiguous, resulting in work-family conflict which affects employees′ job satisfaction. Therefore, this study takes work-family conflict and family-work conflict as independent variables, and job satisfaction as the dependent variables, physical boundaries and psychological boundaries are the moderating variables. Using statistical test analysis is carried out to explore the relationship between work-family conflict, family-work conflict, job satisfaction, and physical and psychological boundaries under the situation of employees working from home.
In this study, the online questionnaire was used to collect data, and a total of 215 valid samples were collected. The results of the study found that: (1) work-family conflict has a negative impact on job satisfaction (2) family-work conflict has a negative impact on job satisfaction (3) Personal physical boundaries do not moderate the relationship between work-family conflict and job satisfaction in the work-from-home situation (4) Personal physical boundaries do not moderate the relationship between family-work conflict and job satisfaction in the employee work-from-home situation (5) Personal psychological boundaries have a moderating effect on the relationship between work-family conflict and job satisfaction (6) Personal psychological boundaries have moderating effects on the relationship between family-work conflict and job satisfaction. We hoped that companies can provide relevant measures for employees in the work-from-home situation. To reduce the conflict between employees’ s work and family and improve the boundaries of employees, thereby improving employees′ job satisfaction.
Keywords: work-family conflict, family-work conflict, job satisfaction, physical boundaries, psychological boundaries | en_US |