Time Use Analysis of Married Paid Workers by Employment Types

Purpose- As balance between work and family becomes an important factor in measuring one's quality of life, companies need to understand employees'demand for work-family balance in terms of human resource management. We tried to analyze time use of employees to see how they make a balance between work and family. The difficulties of work and family balance are shown objectively by the actual conditions of time use and subjectively by time pressure. Therefore, this research aims to analyze the time use and time pressure of married paid workers in order to understand their conditions of work and family balance. Methodology- This study analyzed the time use and time pressure of married paid workers by employment types. Time use was compared by employment types and time pressure groups. We analyzed the factors influencing time pressure, dividing the two employment type groups (full-timer v part-timer). The data were selected from the '2009 Korean Time Use Survey' by the Korean National Statistical Office. The subjects selected were 4918respondents who are married paid workers. Results- There were big differences in time use between full-time and part-time married workers. A comparison of time use between time pressure groups within the full-time workers showed that those who feel time pressure spent more time on work and housework and less time on personal care and leisure than did those who do not feel time pressure. On the other hand, those who feel time pressure among part-time workers spent more time on family care and less time on personal care. Full-time workers reported to have difficulties in work-life balance. Logit analysis on time pressure showed that full-time workers feel more time pressure than part-time workers do. On weekdays, gender, age, education, income, day-off type, and the presence of preschool children were significant variables on time pressure. In particular, females perceived greater time pressure than males did, and those who have preschool