{"id":139648,"date":"2022-12-09T17:52:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T16:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ieseg.fr\/?post_type=news&#038;p=139648"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:42:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:42:19","slug":"increasing-employee-commitment-and-job-satisfaction-with-reduced-work-load-arrangements","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ieseg.fr\/en\/news\/increasing-employee-commitment-and-job-satisfaction-with-reduced-work-load-arrangements\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing employee commitment and job satisfaction with reduced work load arrangements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employees increasingly want a better work-life balance and organizations wanting to retain talent have to meet this need. One way to achieve this is reduced load work arrangements. Professor Elise Marescaux explains how to make these work for both employees and employers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Based on an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/insights.ieseg.fr\/en\/resource-center\/expert\/elise-marescaux\/\">Professor Elise Marescaux<\/a>\u00a0on her paper \u201cExploring the effects of reduced load work arrangements (RLWAs): The role of individual autonomy and workplace level justice perceptions,\u201d co-written with Professors Aykut Berber, Mine Afacan Findikli, Yasin Rofcanin, Farooq Mughal and Juani Swart, published in European Management Journal, April 28, 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Great Resignation is far from over. Recent research by PWC shows that globally\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwc.com\/gx\/en\/issues\/workforce\/hopes-and-fears-2022.html\">20 percent of workers were planning to leave their jobs in 2022<\/a>. How can this flow be stemmed? For workers tempted to head for the exit, an important factor is job satisfaction, and an increasingly important aspect of this is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/15\/style\/quitting-work-life-balance-career.html\">a good work-life balance<\/a>. To help achieve this, various practices exist, such as working from home and flexible hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"btn-jaune\" href=\"https:\/\/insights.ieseg.fr\/en\/resource-center\/increasing-employee-commitment-and-job-satisfaction-with-reduced-work-load-arrangements\/\"><strong>Read more on I\u00c9SEG Insights<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees increasingly want a better work-life balance and organizations wanting to retain talent have to meet this need. One way to achieve this is reduced load work arrangements. 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