Time-Usage Strategies in the Context of Work-Life Balance: the Survey Results
Time-Usage Strategies in the Context of Work-Life Balance: the Survey Results

Summary/Abstract: Work-Life-Balance has become a long-term subject. In an economy which brings people to the limits of their possibilities it depends more than ever on creating a well-balanced relation between professional requirements and personal wishes by suitable measures and conditions. But it is not simply about the reduction of work and rise of spare time-oriented life. It is about the creation of a wellharmonized balance which connects efficiency with personal well-being. This division cannot hide some main problems concerning the use of time and its importance for the quality of life: o On the one hand, it concerns the necessity of the “deacceleration” of time to lead a full life and to create time reserves for a comprehensive life balance. o On the other hand, it concerns the abilities to handle time in such a way that efficiency and working ability is preserved. Results of online survey will be presented in the article. The survey was conducted in Austria, Germany, Italy, Romania and Lithuania in the framework of international project T.U.P.E.C. – Time Use Patterns in European Countries. The project aims at gathering empirical data by an Online-Survey regarding Time-Usage Strategies in the context of Work-Life Balance (WLB). The empirical data shall answer the question, which strategies are caused by which institutional/political general conditions, by economic parameters, by cultural and by individual differences. There where presented Lithuanian data and interpretations according to the general data of the survey.

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