Working hours – tracking the current and future trends

It is important to track the trends of future working hours, since working hours have strong associations to everyday life and work-life interaction, but also to health. In this paper we aim to track the current and future trends in working hours. We discuss the trends through the key dimensions of...

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Published in:Industrial Health 2021/08/18, Vol.59(5), pp.285-292
Main Authors: ANTTILA, Timo, HÄRMÄ, Mikko, OINAS, Tomi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Autonomy
Climate change
Climatic changes
Company structure
Forecasts and trends
Globalization
Health aspects
Influence
Information society
Information technology
Management
Methods
New technology
Occupational health and safety
Pandemics
Psychological aspects
Review
Shift work
Trends
Well being
Work environment
Work hours
Work intensity
Working hours
Working life
Working time
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Summary:It is important to track the trends of future working hours, since working hours have strong associations to everyday life and work-life interaction, but also to health. In this paper we aim to track the current and future trends in working hours. We discuss the trends through the key dimensions of working hours: the length, timing, tempo and autonomy. We also consider the role of current trends of spatial changes of work. Changes in working time patterns are fostered by several driving factors: globalization and business restructuring challenging the current work organizations, new information technologies, demographic and climate change and the current and future pandemics. The past and current tremendous changes in working hours indicate that changes in working hours will continue. The contemporary trends in future working hours pose risks for personal, family and social life, material well-being and health. At its best, however, the new post-industrial working time regime may provide more autonomy and time for recovery to employees as new technologies and changes in business structures release opportunities for greater individual autonomy over how, where, and for how long paid work is performed.
ISSN:0019-8366
1880-8026
DOI:10.2486/indhealth.2021-0086