WSI-Mitteilungen

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...

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....

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...

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...