Université de Fribourg

Überstunden, Ausgleichsmöglichkeiten, Gesundheit und Work-Life Balance

Brauner, Corinna ; Wöhrmann, Anne Marit ; Backhaus, Nils ; Brenscheidt, Frank ; Tisch, Anita

In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2020, vol. 3, no. 5, p. Article: 3.5

Overtime is widely spread in Germany. Representative data from 7.765 respondents from the BAuA-Working Time Survey 2017 show that employees work an average of 3.9 hours per week longer than contractually agreed, with differences according to gender, full-time work, qualification levels and occupations. More than half of these are transitory overtime hours, which are compensated by free time....

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Shift Work and Work-Family Conflict : A Systematic Review

Wöhrmann, Anne Marit ; Müller, Grit ; Ewert, Kathrin

In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2020, vol. 3, no. 2, p. Article: 3.2

Shift work occupies precious time for family and social life. The aim of this review was to systematically assess the state of research on the impact of shift work on work-fam-ily conflict. A systematic literature search was conducted in PubMed and EBSCO to identify studies published between 1990 and 2017. In the end, 36 articles met the inclusion criteria and were considered in this review....

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Permanent Night Work in Germany

Brauner, Corinna ; Müller, Grit ; Wöhrmann, Anne Marit

In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2018, vol. 2, no. 2, p. Article: 2.2

Research on night work focuses almost solely on night work as part of rotating shift schedules. Thus, little is known about permanent night workers, their working conditions and health. The aim of this study is to give insight on characteristics of permanent night workers, their health status and their work–life balance. Data from the BAuA-Working Time Survey 2015 were used and 189...