Reduced working hours and stress in the Swedish social services: A longitudinal study

P Barck-Holst, Å Nilsonne, T Åkerstedt… - International Social …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Stress has been reported among Swedish social workers for over a decade. Survey data
from a longitudinal quasi-experimental trial in the public sector of reduced working hours …

The impact of reduced worktime on sleep and perceived stress–a group randomized intervention study using diary data

H Schiller, M Lekander, K Rajaleid, C Hellgren… - Scandinavian journal of …, 2017 - JSTOR
Objective Insufficient time for recovery between workdays may cause fatigue and disturbed
sleep. This study evaluated the impact of an intervention that reduced weekly working hours …

Coping with stressful situations in social work before and after reduced working hours, a mixed-methods study

P Barck-Holst, Å Nilsonne, T Åkerstedt… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Little is known about how reduced working hours relate to social work stressors, coping and
work-life balance. An exploratory mixed methods study was therefore performed at a …

Total workload and recovery in relation to worktime reduction: a randomised controlled intervention study with time-use data

H Schiller, M Lekander, K Rajaleid… - Occupational and …, 2018 - oem.bmj.com
Objectives A 25% reduction of weekly work hours for full-time employees has been shown to
improve sleep and alertness and reduce stress during both workdays and days off. The aim …

Reduced working hours and work-life balance

P Barck-Holst, Å Nilsonne, T Åkerstedt… - Nordic Social Work …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Little is known about how reduced working hours affects the work-life balance of staff in the
Swedish social services, or their recovery off-work in terms of specific everyday choices …

Reduced working hours and stress in the Swedish social services

P Barck-Holst - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Background: Since a financial crisis in the 1990's employees in the Swedish public sector
have suffered from work stress and related consequences such as long-term sick leave …

[CITATION][C] Kan excellens uppnås i homogena studentgrupper

A Sjöstrand, P Barck-Holst, C Hellgren - … arbete med breddad rekrytering och breddat …, 2016