The Health Effects of Flextime and Telecommuting
Flexible working conditions promote physical and mental health among employees. Flexible working arrangements, such as flexitime (self-scheduled work shifts) and telecommuting (working from home), are becoming more commonplace in the US and other industrialized nations. Claire Bambra, of Durham University (United Kingdom), and colleagues reviewed ten controlled before-and-after studies involving 16,603 participants, which evaluated a …