@article{dc228a06017e43c19b7b148445c56501,
title = "Workplace Flexibility and Daily Stress Processes in Hotel Employees and Their Children",
abstract = "This research aims to understand the consequences of inadequate workplace flexibility through the lens of daily stress processes. Using a sample of hourly paid hotel employees with children ages 10 to 18 who participated in a daily diary study, the authors compared workers with low and high flexibility on stressor exposure, reactivity, and transmission. The findings showed a consistent pattern of hourly workers with low flexibility having greater exposure to work stressors in general and to workplace arguments in particular. Workers with low flexibility were also more emotionally and physically reactive to work stressors. There was some evidence of stressor transmission to children when parents had low flexibility. Increasing workplace flexibility could serve as a protective factor in exposure and reactivity to stressors experienced in daily life.",
author = "Almeida, {David M.} and Davis, {Kelly D.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was initiated through a program officer{\textquoteright}s grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to learn about work and family issues in the hotel industry. Our discussions with industry leaders as well as with hotel employees and their spouses indicated that some common stressors were linked to the health of employees and possibly of their family members, including long and unpredictable work hours; schedules that do not dovetail well with family schedules, routines, and rituals (e.g., weekend and holiday work); permeable family boundaries (e.g., ubiquitous pagers, cell phones, etc.); unexpected snafus that require immediate attention (e.g., overbooked rooms, employees who do not report to work); and stressful interactions with guests and coworkers that must be handled professionally (). Funding Information: This research was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and conducted as part of the Work, Family and Health Network, which is funded by a cooperative agreement through the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Grant nos. U01HD051217, U01HD051218, U01HD051256, U01HD051276), National Institute on Aging (Grant no. U01AG027669), Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (Grant no. U010H008788). The contents of this publication are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of these institutes and offices. Special acknowledgment goes to Extramural Staff Science collaborators, Rosalind Berkowitz King, PhD, and Lynne Casper, PhD, for designing the original Workplace, Family, Health and Well-Being Network Initiative.",
year = "2011",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1177/0002716211415608",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "638",
pages = "123--140",
journal = "Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science",
issn = "0002-7162",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
number = "1",
}