In The New York Times, Grant and Sandberg (2015) made the case that women perform more office housework and experience more burnout, yet receive fewer career benefits, from performing office housework than do men. However, this claim has not been formally tested. Based on gender role theory, conservation of resources theory, and shifting standards, we test the relationships between gender, office housework, burnout, and promotion. Results revealed that women performed more office housework overall than did men. More specifically, women engaged in more social maintenance OHW, while men engaged in more object maintenance OHW. Contrary to the popular press claim, results showed no significant relationship between office housework and burnout. Moreover, office housework did not mediate the relationship between gender and burnout. In addition, gender moderated the relationship between office housework and promotion such that the relationship was statistically significant for men, but not statistically significant for women. This study contributes to the literature by introducing office housework as a specific form of organizational citizenship behavior and empirically investigating the popular press claim related to office housework.

在纽约时报, Grant 和 Sandberg (2015) 证明，与男性相比，女性承担更多的办公室家务，经历更多的倦怠，但从执行办公室家务中获得的职业收益更少。但是，这种说法尚未经过正式测试。基于性别角色理论、资源节约理论和转移标准，我们测试了性别、办公室家务、倦怠和晋升之间的关系。结果显示，总体而言，女性比男性承担更多的办公室家务。更具体地说，女性从事更多的社会维护 OHW，而男性从事更多的对象维护 OHW。与大众媒体的说法相反，结果显示办公室家务劳动和倦怠之间没有显着关系。此外，办公室家务劳动并没有在性别和职业倦怠之间起到中介作用。此外，性别调节了办公室家务和晋升之间的关系，因此这种关系对男性具有统计学意义，但对女性没有统计学意义。本研究通过引入办公室家务作为组织公民行为的一种特定形式，并对与办公室家务相关的大众媒体声明进行实证调查，为文献做出了贡献。