Workplaces have implemented changes since the COVID pandemic began almost four years ago. Some give employees more flexibility in hours and tasks.
Orfeu Buxton, professor of biobehavioral health, SSRI cofund and director of the Sleep, Health & Society Collaboratory at Penn State is co-author of the report and was recently on WITF's "The Spark" radio show. ”Our real world workplace intervention was based upon big piles of work that suggested that more flexible workplaces had employees more likely to stick around, more productive and better health. But to test that, we wanted to do a real world workplace intervention designed to really focus on increasing flexibility over time in a way that’s really a culture shift. So changing the culture of work to prioritize accomplishing the work needed rather than just time on task. The when and where of work.”
Read more and listen to the radio interview here.
You can read more about Buxton's research in this Penn State News story here.