Telepressure: A Source of Pressure for Work-Life Balance
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https://doi.org/10.37134/jcit.vol15.1.5a.2025Keywords:
Workplace telepressure, Job tenure, Work-life balance, Job demands resource theoryAbstract
In the face of the rapid expansion of information and communication technology usage in the workplace, telepressure started increasing resulting in a disturbance of work-life balance. The purpose of this study is to test the influence of telepressure on work-life balance through the moderating effect of job tenure on the relationship. The data for this study were collected through structured questionnaires from 472 volunteers from Malaysia following convenience sampling. The PROCESS macro was used in the moderation analysis. The result revealed that telepressure has a significantly negative relationship with work-life balance while job tenures showed a strong moderation effect between telepressure on work-life balance. The present study has tested the influence of telepressure on work-life balance at different spans of their job, which was not explored previously and extends the literature in this context. Likewise, the present study contributes to the literature on the Job Demands Resources (JD-R) model in the Malaysian context.
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