Relational Impacts on Work-Life Conflict
Office Gossip III: Can you believe it? Mary is home with a sick kid AGAIN. Seriously, can’t she find someone else to help her out? When she is gone the rest of us have to do her work and I am so tired of covering for the breeders around here.
I think she abuses CompanyX’s policy that separates sick leave for dependents from personal sick leave and uses every last day................................... I wish I could playhooky like that. When she’s back we should give her the third degree... see if her kid was really even sick.
Clark (2002) asserts that talking with family about work and talking with coworkers/ supervisors about (family)life affects both the work and life domains, leading to greater work satisfaction, higher work functioning, higher satisfaction with home and family activities, and resulting in more functional families. In this section, we first highlight the impact of work relationships on WLC by focusing on supervisors and coworkers and then discuss ways in which spousal and other familial relationships are connected to WLC.