Work–life balance in the digital era

Work–life balance (WLB) now rivals salary and career advancement as a top employee priority, yet organizations continue to struggle with designing work that enables both performance and balance. This challenge has intensified with distributed work arrangements, where employees face dis - tinct demands across on-site, hybrid, and remote contexts. Drawing on the Job Demands–Resources (JD-R) theory, we examine how combinations of job design and ICT character - istics jointly shape WLB. Using a two-step fuzzy-set qualita - tive comparative analysis (fsQCA) across two national samples (France, N = 605