Family and flexibility: How flexible work arrangements influence organizational commitment and burnout

Abstract

This study investigated relationships between flexible work arrangements, work-family enrichment, organizational commitment, and burnout. 202 Amazon Mechanical Turk workers participated in a survey designed to measure the outlined variables. In this quantitative design experiment, participants followed a link to complete the online survey created on SurveyMonkey. I found that the availability of flexible work arrangements was positively related to work-family enrichment and organizational commitment but negatively related to burnout. Work-family enrichment completely mediated the relationship between flexible work arrangements, organizational commitment. Work family enrichment also completely mediated the relationship between flexible work arrangements and burnout. These findings support the implementation of flexible working options in more organizations.