Workplace flexibility has been a topic of considerable interest to researchers,
practitioners, and public policy advocates as a tool to help
individuals manage work and family roles. In this study, meta-analysis
is used to clarify what is known about the relationship between flexible
work arrangements and work–family conflict by deconstructing the
flexibility construct. We found that the direction of work–family conflict
(work interference with family vs. family interference with work)
and the specific form of flexibility (flextime vs. flexplace; use vs. availability)
make a difference in the effects found. Overall, the significant
effects were small in magnitude.