Worklife Balance Challenges in AI – Supported Hybrid Work Models: A Technostress Perspective

The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into hybrid work models has fundamentally reshaped contemporary work practices. While AI Supported hybrid work promises flexibility, efficiency, and productivity, it has also introduced significant challenges related to employee well being, particularly work life balance. Drawing exclusively on the Technostress Model, this conceptual paper examines how AI - enabled work systems contribute to work life balance challenges by generating technology induced stressors. The paper synthesizes existing literature to conceptualize AI supported hybrid work as a source of techno overload, techno invasion, techno complexity, techno insecurity, and techno uncertainty. These technostress creators are argued to intensify work life boundary blurring, emotional exhaustion, and role conflict among employees. Focusing on the Indian organizational context, the study highlights cultural and structural factors that amplify technostress in hybrid work settings. The paper proposes a technostress driven conceptual framework and offers theoretical and managerial implications for designing sustainable AI enabled hybrid work environments. The study contributes to the growing discourse on digital work and employee well being by positioning technostress as a central mechanism linking AI adoption and work life balance outcomes.