Study on Work-Life Design focusing on Quality of Work

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K12669
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Design science
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: ANDO Akira 名古屋大学, 未来社会創造機構, 招へい教員 (50537834)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 金森 亮 名古屋大学, 未来社会創造機構, 特任准教授 (40509171)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 主観的幸福度 / 自宅勤務 / 構造方程式モデル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Now in Japan, it is significant to improve the working environment such as lack of workers and working long hours, therefore government and companies try to solve this problems. “Work-Life balance”is one of key concept for this problem.
In this study, we focused on a flexible working system, especially working at home, conducted an experiment for two week, in which 9 subjects report their subjective-happiness and several psychological indices, and wear physical censors. From results of this study, it is confirmed that the introduction of working at home might be made a positive impact on the worker’s subjective well-being.

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