TXST associate professor probes ways to improve remote worker work-family balance

Shortly before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Maggie Wan, an associate professor in the McCoy College of Business at Texas State University, received an opportunity to analyze a relatively new and growing segment within the U.S. workforce: remote workers.

Dawn Carlson at Baylor University invited her to collaborate on a project examining remote work and that work environment’s impact on families.

One of the resulting research papers: “Interruptions in Remote Work: A Resource-based Model of Work and Family Stress,” led by Sara J. Perry at Baylor, was published in the Journal of Business and Psychology. The research team includes Carlson, Micki Kacmar from the University of South Alabama and Merideth Thompson from Utah State University.