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Null effects of age and gender on worker well-being, work-family conflict and performance while working remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic

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Bolat, Oya Inci
Bolat, Tamer

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PurposeA growing body of research has suggested that the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted vulnerable groups such as working women, parents and older adults. Accordingly, and via the lens of social role and identity theories on gender and age at work, the authors examined the intersection of age, gender and potential caregiving responsibilities on worker well-being, work-family conflict and performance while working remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic.Design/methodology/approachIn all, 1,174 Turkish job incumbents working from home either full- or part-time responded to a survey measuring self-reported anxiety, depression, stress, work-to-family conflict, family-to-work conflict and performance in the summer of 2020.FindingsDespite using Bayesian modeling, good sample variability on age, gender and caregiving responsibilities, data collection timing allowing for the maximization of variance in individual attitudes toward working from home during the pandemic, outcome measures that evidenced excellent reliability and reasonably good data fit, and the inclusion of appropriate covariates and stringent robustness tests, hypothesized effects were overall found to be null.Practical implicationsThe authors suggest that if remote work helps level the playing field, then that is impetus for organizations to further transition into such work arrangements.Originality/valueThe authors speculate on these counterintuitive results and suggest implications for future research and practice on the confluence of remote work and workplace diversity, including the potential benefits of remote work for women and older adults, the role of cultural values and the use of Bayesian methods to infer support for the null.

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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd

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Psychology

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Journal of Managerial Psychology

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10.1108/JMP-03-2023-0158

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