Remote Work During the Pandemic and Its Implications for Families with Children: A Qualitative Study
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https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8069.18.1.05Keywords:
remote work, family, COVID-29, videoconferences, CAQDASAbstract
This paper discusses the social effects of the pandemic experience observed at the intersection of remote work and the lives of families with children. It concentrates on the impact of the transfer of professional work to home on the division of labor in families. The presented considerations are inspired by scholarly work on the transformation of gender roles and the theory of boundaries. The empirical part was based on 23 partially-structured interviews with parents who experienced remote work due to the pandemic. The thematic analysis focused on the three dimensions of work (professional work, care work, and unpaid work at home) and, as such, made it possible to reveal the heterogeneity of the changes associated with the transition of one or two partners in families with children to the remote work mode. The presented research confirms that depending on “whose” professional work was transferred to home, this solution could either deepen inequalities between women and men, or favor more egalitarian divisions of labor in the family. This is an important relationship for future research and possible reinterpretations of the already collected data. The analysis of the collected interviews also made it possible to develop three pandemic models of remote work in families with children. Their detailed characteristics described in this article allow the understanding of the effects of employing the model solutions in the individual dimension as well as their impact on the functioning of families as a whole. The presented typology was extended in order to include critical elements of the context of the functioning of families, which determined the extent to which the presented models were implemented within the families of research participants.
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