Flexible work arrangement policies provide employees the flexibility to manage their work and personal lives. Despite various efforts of public organizations, struggles to simplify or integrate work and private life demands continue, resulting in employees’ lower satisfaction, higher stress, higher turnover, and lower productivity. Our study focuses on the social environments of individual employees by investigating how social networks affect individuals’ efforts to balance work and life in a higher education setting. Using a 2011 NSF-funded national survey of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) faculty in US universities, we examine the impact of multiplexity in social networks on work-life balance (WLB) and how the impact varies by gender. Our regression results suggest that the impact of relational multiplexity on WLB follows an inverse U-shape pattern and varies by gender. In particular, multiplex ties that individuals socialize outside their work can affect their WLB and the impact varies by gender.

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与福利的联系：关系多重性、性别和工作与生活平衡之间的关系

灵活的工作安排政策为员工提供了管理工作和个人生活的灵活性。尽管公共组织做出了各种努力，但简化或整合工作和私人生活需求的努力仍在继续，导致员工满意度较低、压力较大、流动率较高和生产率较低。我们的研究重点关注个体员工的社会环境，通过调查社交网络如何影响个体在高等教育环境中平衡工作和生活的努力。我们利用 2011 年 NSF 资助的对美国大学科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 教师的全国调查，研究了社交网络的多元化对工作与生活平衡 (WLB) 的影响，以及这种影响如何因性别而异。我们的回归结果表明，关系多重性对 WLB 的影响遵循倒 U 形模式，并且因性别而异。特别是，个人在工作之外社交的多重关系可能会影响他们的工作负载平衡，而且这种影响因性别而异。