Qualitative data explores how policies and relational factors shape employees' work-nonwork boundaries, suggesting critical implications for management.
Key Points
This research aims to elucidate how work-life flexibility policies and relational others influence employees' boundary management in hybrid work settings.
Qualitative data were collected through interviews with hybrid working academics.
Photo-elicitation was used to enhance the information gathered during interviews.
Work-life flexibility policies prompt, facilitate, and legitimize employee boundary management.
The presence of multiple boundary-keepers can either reinforce or undermine boundary management.
A differentiated understanding of flexible working policies reveals their complex role in shaping boundaries.