From ‘home work’ to ‘home office work’?

The Work to Make a Home Network Work

Recently, households have begun to adopt networking technologies to interconnect devices within the home. Yet little is known about the consequences for households of setting up and living with these complex networks, nor the impact of such technologies on the routines of the home. In this paper, we report findings from an empirical study of households containing complex networks of computer an...

Home Relocation and the Journey to Work

Relocation decisions are complex. Each household has a bundle of attributes that make a location attractive to it, including the ability to access different activity locations easily, neighborhood quality, house amenities etc. Relocating households have an opportunity to find housing closer to their work. Using data collected in the Twin Cities area, we investigate how distance to home and trav...

Why Women Work Closer to Home

A resource perspective on the work-home interface: the work-home resources model.

The objective of this article is to provide a theoretical framework explaining positive and negative work-home processes integrally. Using insights from conservation of resources theory, we explain how personal resources (e.g., time, energy, and mood) link demanding and resourceful aspects of one domain to outcomes in the other domain. The resulting work-home resources (W-HR) model describes wo...

Work-Life Conflict: Factors Associated with Negative Spillover from Home to Work

Work-life conflict can have adverse affects on both families and workplaces, impacting the wellbeing of society as a whole. One area of existing research on work-life conflict has focused on negative spillover from home to work. More specifically, when the stress from factors in individuals’ home and family life extends into and adversely affects functioning in the workplace. The purpose of thi...