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Association of work-time control with burnout and turnover intention: a cross-sectional analysis of a general working population in Korea
Originally published 2026-02-21 · Epidemiology and Health
Korean Society of Epidemiology · DOI 10.4178/epih.e2026011 ↗
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about measuring real schedule discretion across the workforce; the original evidence concerns 4745 wage workers in the 2024 Korean Work, Sleep, and Health Study.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Independence
How much freedom do employees have over the shape of a workday?
This reading brings six dimensions of work-time control alongside burnout and turnover intention into the independence pathway. The cross-sectional national wage-worker analysis offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
4745 wage workers in the 2024 Korean Work, Sleep, and Health Study
Age / stage: Working adults; not exclusively parents
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess work-time control quartiles and burnout measures?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about burnout as a statistical mediator of turnover intention?
- What would need to be checked before adopting measuring real schedule discretion across the workforce?
Keep the limits in view
Cross-sectional mediation does not establish causal sequencing; turnover intention is not actual departure and findings do not concern parents exclusively.
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Hye-Eun Lee; Seong-Sik Cho; Mo-Yeol Kang (2026). Association of work-time control with burnout and turnover intention: a cross-sectional analysis of a general working population in Korea Epidemiology and Health. https://doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2026011
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