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June 3, 2026Human Resource ManagementOpen Access

Prompting, Facilitating, and Legitimizing: How Work‐Life Flexibility Policies and Relational Others Shape Boundary Management

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GGGiulia GiuntiLRLaura RadcliffeRDRory Donnelly

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Overview

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.

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Giunti et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1fc730dee9eb8c0dce814dhttps://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.70081
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