Work-from-home satisfaction and task crafting in South Korea: the roles of resilience and job tenure

Abstract

Work-from-home (WFH) practices, rapidly adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic, have transformed flexible work arrangements, especially in South Korea. Based on the conservation of resources theory, we investigated whether WFH satisfaction enhances resilience and task crafting and how job tenure affects this. Using regression-based path modelling, our analysis of one-month-apart, two-wave data from 337 WFH employees revealed novel insights: the WFH satisfaction - task crafting relationship was mediated by resilience and job tenure moderated the positive effect of WFH satisfaction on task crafting through resilience. This positive relationship and positive indirect effect were more pronounced for short-tenured employees.