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A Study on Home-Based Work: The Chracteristics and Practices of Home-Based Work in the United States and The Conceptual Model for Studying on At-Home Income Generation (재택근무 가정의 실태 및 개념적 모델에 관한 연구)

  • 문숙재
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.207-224
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    • 1998
  • This study is approach to the Home-Based Work. More specifically, to examine about the families who try to combined home life and income-generation work under the same roof. Families were looking at Home-Based Work as one solution to the work-family crunch. Many research papers have suggested that Home-Based Work provides an effective way to balance the demands of paid employment and family responsibilities. Therefore, this proposed research reviewed the Home-Based Work as they contributed to individual and family satisfactions. The Prupose of this paper is to address issues related to Home-Based Work from the perspective of theory and application in family resource management, also to suggest a conceptual model for family work activities is advanced. This paper is examined concepts related to Home-Based Work employment that could be used to frame and describe the empirical study are specified. This paper was informed by analyses of data from project NE-167. "At-Home Income Generation: Impact on Management, Productivity, and Stability in Rural/Urban Families". The results from this paper will be helpful in enhancing the stability and satisfaction of families who worked in Home-Based Work.ased Work.

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Risk and Improvement Measures of Work from Home in the Post-COVID-19 Era - Focusing on Mental and Physical Issues (포스트 코로나 시대 재택근무의 위험성과 개선방향 - 정신적, 신체적 사안을 중심으로)

  • Tae Soo Eum;Eun Taek Shin;Chang Geun Song
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.38 no.3
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    • pp.93-101
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    • 2023
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted how people work, resulting in a massive shift towards working from home or remotely. Work from home has played a critical role in reducing the transmission of COVID-19 by limiting in-person interactions and reducing the density of people in office buildings. It also enabled businesses and organizations to continue operating while keeping their employees safe and healthy. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of work from home in business and organizational sectors worldwide, and it is likely to continue as a preferred mode of work even after the pandemic is over. This shift towards working from home has not only impacted the way people work but also has significant implications for urban development, transportation, and the environment. This study intends to develop measures for addressing potential physical and mental health issues among remotely working employees. Additionally, it identifies the major influencing factors of home workers' health hazards and proposes improvement measures that can be applied to working from home, along with existing laws and prevention methods.

A Study on the relationship between work from home and sleep disturbances among workers: using the 5th working environment survey (제5차 근로환경조사를 통해 조사된 재택근무와 수면장애 간의 연관성 연구)

  • Hyun-Jung Kim;Seo-Yeon Park;Hyung Jin Kwon;Yi-Qin Fang;Lei Lee
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Dental Administration
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.78-88
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    • 2023
  • This study aimed to analyze the correlation between working from home and sleep disorders among domestic workers using data from the 5th Working Environment Survey in 2017. Out of the total 30,108 wage workers, 818 employees work from home and 4,090 work in an office. A random sample of 1:5 pairs, considering gender and occupational group, was selected from these employees as the study subjects. The analysis included personal characteristics, occupational characteristics, work-from-home arrangements, and sleep disorders. Age, education, employment status, years in the workforce, weekly working hours, work-life balance, self-perceived health, depression, and anxiety were all adjusted as potential confounding variables. Conditional logistic regression analysis was conducted to examine the relationship between working from home (independent variable) and sleep disorder (dependent variable). This analysis aimed to analyze the correlation between working from home and sleep disorder. The analysis revealed that working from home was associated with sleep onset latency disorder OR=3.23 (95% CI=2.67~3.91), sleep maintenance disorder OR=3.67 (95% CI=3.02~4.45), and non-restorative sleep OR=3.01 (95% CI=2.46~3.67), which showed a statistically significant relationship with all three types of sleep disorders. Factors influencing the correlation between working from home and sleep disorders included work-life balance, social isolation, and anxiety.

Continuance Adoption of Working from Home after the COVID-19 Outbreak: Empirical Evidence from Saudi Arabia

  • AHMED, Salem Mohamed;KHALIL MD, Nor
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.8 no.7
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    • pp.67-78
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    • 2021
  • The COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the world has rendered a large proportion of the workforce unable to commute to work, to mitigate the spread of the virus. This has resulted in both employers and employees seeking alternative work arrangements. Due to the pandemic, most if not all workers experienced work from home Hence work from home has become a policy priority for most governments. Individuals have started to change their behavior to stick to the curfew and rapidly conform to the new way of life. This study is conducted to understand how organizations and people adjust to these developments and challenges. Numerous organizations are changing to the online method of working because of the COVID-19. Because of the continuous adoption of a specific behavior after the COVID-19 pandemic situation ended, employees were expected to continue working from home. To investigate deep into the behavioral consequences of such a pandemic situation, in-depth interviews were conducted in several companies in Saudi Arabia. This study was conducted by extending the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and the theory of reasoned action (TRA) to explore and assess the various factors that determine the continuous adoption intention of work-from-home by the Saudis. The finding shows that the employees' positive attitude, subjective norms, and self-efficacy affect the employees' intention to adopt work from home. The continuous adoption of work from home has been affected by employees' relevant intention and controllability.

A Study on Family Life and Work of Married Female Home-Based Workers - the comparison with married female out-of-home workers - (기혼여성 재택근무자의 가정 및 직장생활에 관한 연구 - 직장근무자와의 비교를 중심으로 -)

  • 이수진;이기영
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.39 no.3
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    • pp.47-66
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    • 2001
  • The purpose of this study is to find the difference of household/work characteristics, family life satisfaction, and work satisfaction between home-based workers and out-of-home workers. The data of this study was collected from 230 married womens(home-based worker : 103 cases out-of-home worker : 127 cases) living in seoul. The major findings of the study are as follows. 1) Home-based worker's consumption expenditure structure, wive's housework time, schedule flexibility and degree of interruption, work loads were significantly higher than out-of-home workers. 2) Home-based worker's average monthly wage of her own and work time were significantly lower than out-of-home jokers. 3) Home-based worker's child care satisfaction and time use satisfaction were significantly higher than out-of-home workers. Out-of-home worker's self-fulfillment satisfaction, satisfaction of relation with supervisor, job stability satisfaction, work time satisfaction was significantly higher than home-based workers.

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Research on Security Threats for SMEs by Workplace in the COVID-19 Environment

  • Kim, Woo-Su;Lim, Heon-Wook
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.307-313
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    • 2022
  • Although telecommuting of SMEs has been activated due to the COVID-19 phenomenon, the security model for this is insufficient. Accordingly, the study was divided into threats centered on smartphones and threats centered on smartphone users. As a result of the study, one-third of SMEs are working from home. At this company with 100 employees, more than 50% of them work from home.and In the metal, machinery and chemical industries with factories, 20% of them work from home. As a result of analyzing the correlation between telecommuting according to the presence or absence of a factory, the correlation coefficient (r=-.385) has a clear linear relationship. And, as a result of the regression analysis, the R-squared value was 0.148, so companies with factories are highly related to telecommuting. In other words, we found that SMEs with factories do not want to work from home. In addition, as a result of analyzing the level of security threats, there were great concerns about theft, hacking, and phone taking during remote work. As limitations of the study, there were difficulties in selecting SMEs from the population in a non-face-to-face work environment, and there were limitations in the questionnaire items for deriving a non-face-to-face work environment.

Interruptions, Unreasonable Tasks, and Quality-Threatening Time Pressure in Home Care: Linked to Attention Deficits and Slips, Trips, and Falls

  • Elfering, Achim;Kottwitz, Maria U.;Hafliger, Evelyne;Celik, Zehra;Grebner, Simone
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.434-440
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    • 2018
  • Background: In industrial countries, home care of community dwelling elderly people is rapidly growing. Frequent injuries in home caregivers result from slips, trips, and falls (STFs). The current study tests attentional cognitive failure to mediate the association between work stressors and STFs. Methods: A sample of 125 home caregivers participated in a questionnaire study and reported work interruptions, unreasonable tasks, quality-threatening time pressure, conscientiousness, attentional cognitive failures, and STFs. Results: In structural equation modeling, the mediation model was shown to fit empirical data. Indirect paths with attentional cognitive failures as the link between work stressors and STF were all significant in bootstrapping tests. An alternative accident-prone person model, that suggests individual differences in conscientiousness to predict attentional cognitive failures that predict more frequent work stressors and STFs, showed no significant paths between work conditions and STFs. Conclusion: To prevent occupational injury, work should be redesigned to reduce work interruptions, unreasonable tasks, and quality-threatening time pressure in home care.

Generational transmission of household works from mothers to married daughters (가사노동의 모녀간 세대전달)

  • 이연숙;박경은
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.29-44
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    • 2000
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate how household work was transmitted from mothers to their married daughters. The results of this study were as follows: First, mothers reported generally higher scores than their married daughters regarding the consciousness and performance of household work an exception in the usage level of home equipments. Second, married daughters' consciousness and performance of household work were positively correlated with those of mothers. The highest correlation was found in the usage level of home equipments and the lowest correlation was in the amount of time using household work helper. Third, married daughter's consciousness and performance of household work were significantly influenced by their mothers. It was especially so in daughter's usage level of home equipments. Accordingly, the results of this study support the existence of generational transmission of household work from mothers to their married daughters with regard to its c nsciousness and performance.

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Discourse Analysis on ICT and Home - From Electronic Cottage to Sharable Home - (정보통신기술과 주거에 대한 중요 담론 분석연구)

  • Han, Sooyeon;Kim, Mi Jeong
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.115-121
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    • 2014
  • This paper draws the home into the stream of information and communications technology (ICT) development. Considering that homes and our home life are constantly affected by persistent change influenced by ICT, it is remarkable that ICT has been relatively neglected as an object of research in the field of housing studies. This study provides an overview of conceptual movements in ICT/home relationships and their design and social impact through a critical discourse analysis. The conceptual movements must be considered by professionals in the field of housing and built environment to stay attuned to changes in the 21st Century. Diverse debates took place in the discourse about ICT in relation to home. The stream of thought was started by futurists who saw the electronic cottage as a solution to the social problems caused by the separation of work and home life in industrial cities. ICT has now entered a new phase, with WiFi P2P networks and location-based social media that encourage sharable homes. Based on the analysis of the discourse on ICT and home, we drew from three issues related to the paradigm shifts in homes in the context of ICT development to provide future directions for housing studies: from space programming to time scheduling, from individual ownership to shared access, and from live+work dwelling to live+work+community.

A Research on Korean Office Workers' Opinions of Home-based Working (사무실 근로자의 재택근무에 대한 의식조사 연구)

  • 하미경;구본삼
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.109-120
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    • 1998
  • The purpose of this research is to provide basic data for future home office design by surveying office workers' opinions about home-based working. The study is based on a survey done with 215 office workers in Seoul. The major findings are as follows. Home-based working is viewed as affirmative among office workers. Office workers thing that 3 days a week is desirable for working at home. The first reason why they want to work at home is 'having more free time for other interests,' the second one is 'being more creative or concentrating on work.'and the third one is 'reducing the stresses from the loaded tasks and relationships between colleagues'. While the first reason why they don't work at home is 'the notion that home is one thing and work is another.' the second one is 'lack of relationships between people.' and the third one is 'unable to concentrate on work because of many house chores.

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