Reduced working hours and work-life balance

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Table 1. Interview questions.

(1) What is your relationship with your colleagues like? Has it been affected by reduced working hours?

(2) What is your relationship with your clients like? Has it been affected by reduced working hours?

(3) How do you feel about going to work? Has it been affected by reduced working hours?

(4) What support concerning stress do you get from your workplace? On whose initiative?

(5) Do you worry about work? Even if nothing special is happening? Has your worry been affected by reduced working hours?

(6) Is your self-esteem strongly affected by work?

(7) Have you ever been on sick leave for exhaustion syndrome, aka Burnout? Has reduced working hours affected how you view your own risk for exhaustion syndrome? How do you view this risk?

(8) Is your experience of stress affected by how long you’ve worked in the profession?

(9) How do you feel about returning to full-time?

(10) Have your feelings about coming home been affected by reduced working hours? How do you feel about coming home?

(11) What is your relationship with your children like? Has it been affected by reduced working hours?

(12) What is your relationship with your partner like? Has it been affected by reduced working hours?

(13) What is your relationship with your friends like? Has it been affected by reduced working hours?

(14) What is your relationship with your family like? Has it been affected by reduced working hours?

(15) Does your relationship, or being single, affect your stress?

(16) What support do you get from your private relationship concerning stress? Who initiates it?

(17) Do you worry about your private life? Even if nothing special is happening?

Table 2. Interviewees positions, gender, age and years in service.

Interviewees		Gender		Age			Years in service
Position	n	Men	Women	18–35	36–50	51–65	1–10	11–20	21–30	31–40
Manager	2	1	1		1	1		1		1
Social worker	7	1	6	3	2	2	4	1	2
Social assistant	3	1	2	1	1	1	3
Total	12	3	9	4	4	4	7	2	2	1

Figure 1. Improved work-life balance as a process.