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Compared to office days, working from home increases employees' autonomy and competence satisfaction but decreases relatedness satisfaction, which indirectly affects daily work engagement and cognitive stress depending on the workplace's telework normativeness. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To examine how alternating between home and office work influences daily employee engagement and cognitive stress via psychological need satisfaction, and how telework norms moderate these links.

September 2, 2026German Journal of Human Resource Management Zeitschrift für Personalforschung

Hybrid work and daily well-being: The role of need satisfaction and telework normativeness from a self-determination theory perspective

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TBTheresa Maria Bantz TRThomas Rigotti

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Daily diary study reveals psychological trade-offs between home and office work among hybrid employees, indicating that workplace norms shape daily engagement and cognitive stress.

Key Points

To examine how alternating between home and office work influences daily employee engagement and cognitive stress via psychological need satisfaction, and how telework norms moderate these links.
Conducted a daily diary investigation gathering 744 daily observations across 114 hybrid employees.
Analyzed within- and between-person associations using multilevel structural equation modeling while testing telework normativeness as a contextual moderator.
Home days were associated with higher autonomy- and competence-need satisfaction but lower relatedness-need satisfaction compared with office days, indirectly affecting engagement and cognitive stress.
Telework normativeness attenuated the indirect effects of work location through autonomy and relatedness, while demonstrating no moderation for competence.
Between-person analyses demonstrated that overall telework volume was not associated with average need satisfaction, engagement, or cognitive stress.

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Bantz et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a97e29ec562ede874ec6d82 https://doi.org/10.1177/23970022261477090

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September 2, 2026German Journal of Human Resource Management Zeitschrift für Personalforschung

Hybrid work and daily well-being: The role of need satisfaction and telework normativeness from a self-determination theory perspective

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Authors

TBTheresa Maria Bantz TRThomas Rigotti

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Overview

Daily diary study reveals psychological trade-offs between home and office work among hybrid employees, indicating that workplace norms shape daily engagement and cognitive stress.

Key Points

To examine how alternating between home and office work influences daily employee engagement and cognitive stress via psychological need satisfaction, and how telework norms moderate these links.
Conducted a daily diary investigation gathering 744 daily observations across 114 hybrid employees.
Analyzed within- and between-person associations using multilevel structural equation modeling while testing telework normativeness as a contextual moderator.
Home days were associated with higher autonomy- and competence-need satisfaction but lower relatedness-need satisfaction compared with office days, indirectly affecting engagement and cognitive stress.
Telework normativeness attenuated the indirect effects of work location through autonomy and relatedness, while demonstrating no moderation for competence.
Between-person analyses demonstrated that overall telework volume was not associated with average need satisfaction, engagement, or cognitive stress.

Cite This Study

Bantz et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a97e29ec562ede874ec6d82 https://doi.org/10.1177/23970022261477090

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