Telework and daily life: Its pros and cons for work-life balance

In this article we discuss whether telework constitutes a useful work-life balance strategy for women teleworkers with dependants. From our analysis we show that the discourse of the women interviewed about telework is not homogeneous, compact or linear, but includes plenty of contradictions, paradoxes & tensions. This fact reinforces telework's enormous polysemy: it liberates & enslaves, it is a trap & an opportunity, it fulfills & can mean self-sacrifice. But, despite this rich complexity, our women informants agree on one particular matter: telework's risks & possibly pernicious effects cannot hide either its advantages for work-life balance or the benefits it brings, at least in some cases, to one's personal life. Adapted from the source document.