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Work changes and employee age, maladaptive coping expectations, and well-being: a Swedish cohort study
ConclusionOur results suggest that there are few age differences in well-being after work changes. Employee well-being seems to mostly depend on maladaptive coping expectations. Organizations aiming to prepare employees for job changes and reorganizations could focus their efforts on employees with maladaptive expectations rather than on older ones. (Source: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health)
Source: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health - January 7, 2022 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research

Quality of work community and workers ’ intention to retire
ConclusionThe results highlight the importance of the quality of work community as well as the promotion of work-related health in order to encourage employees to remain at workforce for longer. (Source: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health)
Source: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health - January 7, 2022 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research

The dilemma of dual adaptation to delayed retirement initiative and work model change of gig economy: the influence of late retirement and multiple-job holding on mental health among older workers
ConclusionThe findings suggest that although the modest engagement in late careers and multiple-job holding could benefit mental health, respectively, the overlap of them could be overburdened for older adults. Policymakers should be aware of the occupational risk of multiple-job holding when incentivizing the delayed retirement to address the population aging. (Source: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health)
Source: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health - January 7, 2022 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research

Physiological impacts on construction workers under extremely hot and humid weather
This study aims to address the problem of EHH weather conditions and their impacts on construction workers’ physiological status.MethodsThis study assesses the impacts of EHH weather on construction workers ’ physiological status through the measurement of workers’ physical body parameters (age, height, and weight); type of activities; and assigned tasks. Thirty-five multinational workers participated in the measurements, which were conducted in real construction site conditions A quantitative anal ysis was then applied to quantify the physiological impacts of the weather conditions. Several hypotheses were tested to...
Source: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health - January 4, 2022 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research

Boundaryless working hours and recovery in Germany
ConclusionsAltogether, our findings indicate that various aspects of boundaryless working hours pose a risk to employees ’ state of recovery and that especially psychological detachment is a potential mechanism in these relationships. In addition, the results suggest that a high level of recovery experiences cannot attenuate these negative relationships in leisure time. Therefore, employers and employees alike shoul d try to avoid or minimize boundaryless working hours. (Source: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health)
Source: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health - January 1, 2022 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research