Availability norms and burnout symptoms: The role of autonomy and telepressure

Given these evolutions, availability norms are emerging at work referring to the shared beliefs and expectations among coworkers to be constantly available for work-related communication, during as well as after regular work hours. Relying on the Job-Demands Resources Model, this study aims to investigate the relationship between these availability norms and burnout symptoms.

We first of all study to what extent availability norms are associated with heightened burnout symptoms. Secondly, we explore how both telepressure, as a job demand, and autonomy, as a job resource, could offer distinct and relevant explanations for the role these availability norms play in experiencing burnout symptoms. We collected data through a survey study with 229 professionally active adults.