Balancing work and family with telework? Organizational issues And challenges for Women and managers

摘要

This article presents a research on telework and deals with thefollowing questions: Who are the teleworkers (sex, age, mainsocio-occupational categories)? What are the impacts of telework onwork organization and working conditions, particularly for women, andin terms of work-family balance, since telework is cometimespresented as a solution to problems of reconciling work and familyresponsibilities? Finally, what is the level of satisfaction amongteleworkers and why are they satisfied or dissatisfied with thissystem? Are there differences between various groups on this regard?We insist on the dimensions of working conditions and autonomy intelework and highlight the fact that there is a risk of polarizationaccording to gender, women being more frequently in a situation wherethey have less autonomy than men in telework, although many also seetelework in a positive way, as an "escape" form a bureaucratic workenvironment.