Volume 79 (2026), Edition 1

Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP, 2019–2022), this article examines how daily unpaid care work – specifically housework and childcare – affects both the contracted and the actual working hours of parents. Descriptive...

The regulations on working from home established during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown offered many employees a level of flexibility that they did not want to give up after the pandemic ended. But how do companies feel about flexible working...

This study examines whether the expanding option of working from home (WFH) served as a resource for female and male caregivers over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. For caregivers, WFH offered potential benefits such as greater work autonomy,...

Questions of mobile work and changes in industrial relations have rarely been investigated to date. This article therefore deals with the question of how works councils are challenged by mobile work and how their practices change over time in...

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the demanding working conditions in social and healthcare professions were a topic of discussion. These conditions worsened further during the pandemic: This article shows that employees in these professions worked...

The quality of work in occupations related to social work, healthcare and education is a key issue in light of the ongoing shortage of skilled workers in these systemically relevant fields, which has received increased public attention since the...

The article examines how working hours and work locations changed during the Covid-19 pandemic and whether these changes persisted thereafter. The focus is on the length, timing, and flexibility of working hours, as well as on working from home....