Working time reporting in Germany: Scientific analyses of the BAuA working time survey on current topics

  • Project number: F 2507
  • Institution: Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA)
  • Status: Completed Project

Description:

Working time organisation remains an important topic in occupational health and safety. The public debate is shaped by the flexibilisation of working time and rest periods. In the face of employees' need for more control over their working time, working time recording and the working times during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, flexible work arrangements are becoming increasingly important. These can include teleworking, working from home or mobile working.

The aim of this project was to close research gaps, address the public debate and objectify it on the basis of scientific evidence. To this end, data of several BAuA working time surveys from 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2021 were analysed. The results emphasise the role of working time organisation for the mental and physical health, well-being and work-life balance of employees. It is clear that working hours and temporal boundaries are a key factor in recovery processes. This applies to rest periods and breaks as well as to long working hours and overtime.

The recording of working hours is accompanied with healthy working time arrangements and more control over recovery and working times for employees. Furthermore, employees in special professions, such as care-related work, were examined, because of the particularly negative demand patterns in the organisation of working hours during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

The project provides these representative results not only to the scientific community, but also, among others, for parliamentary enquiries, companies, occupational health and safety stakeholders and social partners. By doing so it can be ensured that working time is organised for the safety and health of employees. Against the backdrop of ongoing political debates on reducing working hours and making the Working Hours Act (Arbeitszeitgesetz) more flexible, the topic of working time organisation will remain important in the future and requires continuous, representative working time reporting.

Publications

Working Time Report Germany: Results of the BAuA-Working Time Survey 2021

Publishing year: 2023

Suchergebnis_Format baua: Report (in German)

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BAuA-Working Time Survey 2019: Digital information and communication technologies and their association with work intensity, temporal boundary­lessness and working time flexibility

Publishing year: 2022

Suchergebnis_Format baua: Report (in German)

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Arbeitszeitreport Deutschland - Arbeit von zuhause

Publishing year: 2023

Suchergebnis_Format baua: Report brief

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Working Time Report Germany - Working from Home

Publishing year: 2023

Suchergebnis_Format baua: Report brief

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Arbeitszeitreport Deutschland - Länge, Lage und Flexibilität der Arbeitszeit im Überblick

Publishing year: 2023

Suchergebnis_Format baua: Report brief

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Working Time Report Germany - Overview of Duration, Location and Flexibility of Working Time

Publishing year: 2023

Suchergebnis_Format baua: Report brief

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Wie nehmen Beschäftigte den technologischen Wandel wahr?

Publishing year: 2022

Suchergebnis_Format baua: Report brief

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Arbeitszeiterfassung und Flexibilität - Ergebnisse der BAuA-Arbeitszeitbefragung 2019

Publishing year: 2021

Suchergebnis_Format baua: Fokus

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Arbeitsbezogene Mobilität und Gesundheit

Publishing year: 2023

Suchergebnis_Format Article

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Arbeitszeiten und Erholung in Deutschland - eine Untersuchung ihres Zusammenspiels und ihrer Bedeutung für die Gesundheit von Beschäftigten

Publishing year: 2023

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Arbeitszeitreport Deutschland: Neue Ergebnisse aus der BAuA-Arbeitszeit­befragung 2021

Publishing year: 2023

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Arbeitszeiten in Deutschland - mehr Beschäftigte arbeiten zeit- und ortsflexibel

Publishing year: 2023

Suchergebnis_Format Article

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Charakterisierung der Zielgruppe informell Pflegende (pflegende Angehörige)

Publishing year: 2023

Suchergebnis_Format Article

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Does Working from Home Improve the Temporal Alignment of Work and Private Life? Differences Between Telework and Informal Overtime at Home by Gender and Family Responsibilities

Publishing year: 2023

Suchergebnis_Format Article

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Mobiles Arbeiten: Chancen und Risiken

Publishing year: 2023

Suchergebnis_Format Article

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Similar, but Different: Gender Differences in Working Time Arrangements and the Work-Life Interface

Publishing year: 2023

Suchergebnis_Format Article

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Wann werden Wünsche wahr? Arbeitszeit­wünsche und Modelle der Arbeitszeit­verkürzung in Deutschland

Publishing year: 2023

Suchergebnis_Format Article

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Work‐Related ICT Use and the Dissolution of Boundaries Between Work and Private Life

Publishing year: 2023

Suchergebnis_Format Article

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Employees' work breaks and their physical and mental health: Results from a representative German survey

Publishing year: 2023

Suchergebnis_Format Article

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Arbeiten von zuhause und Entgrenzung: Eine Frage betrieblicher Gestaltung? Der Zusammenhang zwischen betrieblich vereinbartem und nicht vereinbartem Arbeiten von zuhause und einem belastungsbasierten Work-Home Konflikt nach Geschlecht

Publishing year: 2022

Suchergebnis_Format Article

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Arbeitszeiten in der Corona-Krise: Länger, kürzer oder flexibler?

Publishing year: 2022

Suchergebnis_Format Article

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Employees' rest breaks and their mental and physical health: results from a representative German survey

Publishing year: 2022

Suchergebnis_Format Article

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Gesunde Grenzen der Arbeitszeit: Wie Beschäftigte von der Arbeitszeit­erfassung profitieren können

Publishing year: 2022

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Jede Stunde zählt? Arbeitszeit­erfassung und -konten für verschiedene Überstunden­gründe und -ausgleichsformen

Publishing year: 2022

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Work-Time Control and Exhaustion: Internal Work-to-Home Interference and Internal Home-to-Work Interference as Mediators

Publishing year: 2022

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Working Time Control and Variability in Europe Revisited: Correlations with Health, Sleep, and Well-Being

Publishing year: 2022

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Arbeiten von zu Hause und überall? Herausforderungen zeit- und ortsflexibler Arbeit aus Sicht des Arbeitsschutzes

Publishing year: 2021

Suchergebnis_Format Article

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Boundaryless working hours and recovery in Germany

Publishing year: 2022

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How leadership can help to mitigate the dark side of autonomy. Results based on the German sample of the European Working Conditions Survey

Publishing year: 2021

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Further information

Contact

Unit 1.1 "Working Time and Flexibilisation"

Phone: +49 231 9071-1971
Fax: +49 231 9071-2070