Germany’s capacity to work from home

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...

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...

A tale of two Germanys

Editor—The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of communism in eastern Europe and in eastern Germany. As McKee and Fister point out, certain constellations of epidemiological and demographic variables characterise the resultant process of political and economic transition: low or even decreasing life expectancy (especially for men) and higher prevalences of alcoholis...

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