%0 Thesis
%9 Master
%A Bryan, Katherine
%D 2024
%F theses_frw:4711
%P 79
%T Flexible working: its impacts on health and happiness in the UK and the Netherlands
%U https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4711/
%X This research involves the impact of different levels of autonomy in various flexible working practices, comparing the effects on both happiness and health of workers in the UK and the Netherlands. There has generally been some research in the two effects, but little in happiness of employees, which today is finding an added importance in how our new world of working is structured, along with new policy implementation. Further, there has been little research in comparing effects cross-region/border, investigating if autonomous flexible working policies can be replicated successfully in another location. Through ordinal logistic regression, there are little results showing great significant impacts, however there are some significant results for the Netherlands showing negative impacts especially on health when having more autonomy in flexible working arrangements. Further, it is shown that the UK and the Netherlands, in most cases, can have an adverse effect on happiness and health, highlighting the importance of location-based research before implementation of flexible working policies.