In the digital economy era, talent has become a core strategic resource for organizations, but the issue of rising employee turnover rates and job burnout is becoming increasingly prominent, and the impact of family responsibilities on career development urgently needs to be further explored. This study is based on the work family boundary theory and resource conservation theory, and constructs a theoretical model of family responsibility perception, work embeddedness, and employee subjective career success. A questionnaire survey method was used to collect 346 valid samples, and SPSS and AMOS were used for empirical analysis. The results indicate that perceived family responsibility has a significant positive impact on employees’ subjective career success; The perception of family responsibility has a positive impact on work embeddedness; Work embeddedness has a positive impact on subjective career success; Work embedding plays a partial mediating role between perceived family responsibility and subjective career success. The study reveals the intrinsic mechanism by which family responsibility perception enhances job embeddedness and improves career success, providing theoretical basis and practical reference for enterprises to optimize human resource management and promote the coordinated development of employees’ families and careers.
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