Double challenges: How working from home affects dual-earner couples' work-family experiences

Against the backdrop of COVID-19 pandemic, we draw on family systems theory to elucidate how daily work-from-home status (WFH) affects both members in dual-earner couples. We propose that the WFH exerts intra-individual and inter-individual influences on employees' and their partners' work task and family task completion and their subsequent reactions to their work and family experiences. We examined the hypothesized relationships with two daily survey studies on dual-earner couples conducted during the pandemic (i.e., 1,559 daily responses of 165 dual-earner couples from China in Study 1, and 773 daily responses of 57 dual-earner couples from South Korea in Study 2). The two studies provide converging results that working from home (vs. office) increased employees' family task completion for both husbands and wives and that wives working from home (vs. office) decreased husbands' family task completion. Further, in both studies, daily work task completion increased felt guilt toward family (for wives only) through increased work-family conflict, and daily family task completion increased psychological withdrawal from work through increased family-work conflict for both husbands and wives. Moreover, we found in Study 2 that on days when husbands had flexible work schedule, wives completed more work tasks when working from home (vs. office) and that on days when wives had inflexible work arrangement, husbands completed more family tasks when working from home (vs. office). Across the two studies, there were no clear gender-difference patterns in husbands' and wives' work and family experiences. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Double challenges: How working from home affects dual-earner couples' work-family experiences

Against the backdrop of COVID-19 pandemic, we draw on family systems theory to elucidate how daily work-from-home status (WFH) affects both members in dual-earner couples. We propose that the WFH exerts intra-individual and inter-individual influences on employees' and their partners' work task and family task completion and their subsequent reactions to their work and family experiences. We examined the hypothesized relationships with two daily survey studies on dual-earner couples conducted during the pandemic (i.e., 1,559 daily responses of 165 dual-earner couples from China in Study 1, and 773 daily responses of 57 dual-earner couples from South Korea in Study 2). The two studies provide converging results that working from home (vs. office) increased employees' family task completion for both husbands and wives and that wives working from home (vs. office) decreased husbands' family task completion. Further, in both studies, daily work task completion increased felt guilt toward family (for wives only) through increased work-family conflict, and daily family task completion increased psychological withdrawal from work through increased family-work conflict for both husbands and wives. Moreover, we found in Study 2 that on days when husbands had flexible work schedule, wives completed more work tasks when working from home (vs. office) and that on days when wives had inflexible work arrangement, husbands completed more family tasks when working from home (vs. office). Across the two studies, there were no clear gender-difference patterns in husbands' and wives' work and family experiences. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

I miss my Office in my home Office: Challenges with work from home

The COVID-19 pandemic has sent many employees to home offices. Some employees enjoy their home office, while for various reasons others experience challenges working from home. Qualitative investigations show that new employees who have been recruited and hired during the COVID-19 pandemic can find life in the home office quite challenging. Despite adequate technological solutions that make it possible to perform the work tasks from home, these employees want to be able to physically attend at their workplace. Our data indicate that it is important that the company not only sees technology and digitalization as "hard core" skills, but that the digital and technological are woven into other aspects of organizational life, for example, structures, culture and social interaction. New employees need to feel that they are valued, and that the business wants to establish personal and social bonds that support the development of loyalty to the company and quality of the production. These are conditions that are often tied to informal learning in the workplace. Relational development and maintenance are vital for having newcomers to not only function in the digital arena, but also within the physical sphere at the workplace. © 2022, Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited. All rights reserved.

Double challenges: How working from home affects dual-earner couples' work-family experiences

Against the backdrop of COVID-19 pandemic, we draw on family systems theory to elucidate how daily work-from-home status (WFH) affects both members in dual-earner couples. We propose that the WFH exerts intra-individual and inter-individual influences on employees' and their partners' work task and family task completion and their subsequent reactions to their work and family experiences. We examined the hypothesized relationships with two daily survey studies on dual-earner couples conducted during the pandemic (i.e., 1,559 daily responses of 165 dual-earner couples from China in Study 1, and 773 daily responses of 57 dual-earner couples from South Korea in Study 2). The two studies provide converging results that working from home (vs. office) increased employees' family task completion for both husbands and wives and that wives working from home (vs. office) decreased husbands' family task completion. Further, in both studies, daily work task completion increased felt guilt toward family (for wives only) through increased work-family conflict, and daily family task completion increased psychological withdrawal from work through increased family-work conflict for both husbands and wives. Moreover, we found in Study 2 that on days when husbands had flexible work schedule, wives completed more work tasks when working from home (vs. office) and that on days when wives had inflexible work arrangement, husbands completed more family tasks when working from home (vs. office). Across the two studies, there were no clear gender-difference patterns in husbands' and wives' work and family experiences. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Face Recognition and Mask Detection Technology for Surveillance Systems

Corona pandemic has affected the daily routine of life disturbing the trade and economic globally. Wearing a mask has become compulsory and a new tradition. within the close to future, several suppliers can raise the shoppers to wear masks properly. Therefore, detection of face mask has become one of the important tasks to assist the international society. This paper provides a easy and simplified approach to detect the face masks using some of the important Machine Learning packages like TensorFlow, Keras, OpenCV and Scikit-Learn. The projected methodology detects the face from the image properly and so identifies if it's a mask thereon or not. As a police work task performing artist, it may detect a face together with a mask in motion. the tactic gives an accurate output with an accuracy of 96.77% on dataset. The model tendency to find the optimized values of parameters are employed using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model to identify whether the masks are worn properly or not while not inflicting over-fitting. © 2021 IEEE.