Limites entre a vida profissional e pessoal de trabalhadores remotos: uma análise das relações entre flexibilidade e conflito trabalho-família

Abstract

From the COVID-19 pandemic, identified in Brazil in 2020, the remote work system has quickly become a reality for many employees. In this context, new dilemmas have emerged in the world of work, such as separating personal from professional life in the face of technology. The present work aims to understand the influence of the flexibility of remote work on workfamily conflicts from the employee perspective. For this purpose, a case study was carried out, where eight employees of a technology company in the State of Ceará were interviewed. The results of this work show that the flexibility of remote work has a positive influence on the work-family conflicts as it brings benefits such as productivity, the autonomy to manage personal and professional life, a gain of time for family and personal life and an increase in energy and performance, but it also brings disadvantages such as reduced contact with the work team as well as fatigue. Furthermore, it was found that the reduction of body energy and mood changes are not influenced by remote work, but by the nature of the worker's function and occupation and his family composition.