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Viswanath Venkatesh

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Reframing the Discourse on Work-Life Balance in the Digital Age

Author

  • Miranda Kajtazi
  • Desmond Johnson
  • Saonee Sarker
  • Becky Faith
  • Viswanath Venkatesh

Summary, in English

This paper reframes our understanding of the discourse on work-life balance (WLB) from a global perspective, where life on the four income levels (from bottom of the wealth to top of the wealth) is equally considered. Based on a systematic literature review, our initial insights are that WLB of workers in the highest economic sectors has received significant attention from scholars and practitioners in the west, while the global rest and those in other economic sectors, which represents the majority of the world’s population, has almost entirely been overlooked. We argue for a new understanding of WLB that addresses the needs of all people across the globe, regardless of their economic status or geographic position, and independent of their formal or informal work contexts. In our future work, we aim to address how disparities in: (1) agency and dependence; (2) privacy and exposure; (3) connection and disconnection; and (4) formality and informality can affect people's dignity, equality, and healthy environments.

Department/s

  • Department of Informatics
  • Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Publishing year

2023

Language

English

Publication/Series

International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2023 : "Rising like a Phoenix: Emerging from the Pandemic and Reshaping Human Endeavors with Digital Technologies"

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Association for Information Systems

Topic

  • Sociology

Keywords

  • digitalization
  • income levels
  • Work-life balance
  • work-life discourse

Conference name

44th International Conference on Information Systems: Rising like a Phoenix: Emerging from the Pandemic and Reshaping Human Endeavors with Digital Technologies, ICIS 2023

Conference date

2023-12-10 - 2023-12-13

Conference place

Hyderibad, India

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9781713893622