AN EVALUATION ON REMOTE WORKING METHOD IN CONTEXT OF WORK-LIFE BALANCE, PRODUCTIVITY, TRUST AND FLEXIBILITY

Year 2023, Volume: 10 Issue: 1, 193 - 207, 31.01.2023

Meri Taksi Deveciyan , Hazal Koray Alay

Abstract

Due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic, the remote working method has become a necessity rather than a choice for businesses and employees. This compelling and sudden change in working life created new conditions. In turn, they have brought the factors affecting employee productivity as a determining factor in the success of businesses to the agenda again. In this context, this study aims to examine the impact of flexible working conditions, the environment of trust and work-life balance variables on employees' productivity with a focus on remote working methods. The cross-sectional survey method is used as a data collection and analysis method in the research. The data obtained from 571 people and collected by convenience sampling were analyzed through the SPSS 20 program. In light of its findings, it has been found that the variables of flexibility, trust environment, and work-life balance were related to the productivity variable and that the flexibility and trust environment variables had a high explanatory power for the productivity variable. Although the work-life balance variable has a negative relationship with productivity, it has been found that its explanatory power is low. The findings are very inspiring for future studies, as they reveal the role played by remote working as a widely used method today on productivity.

Keywords

Remote work, flexibility, trust, work-life balance, productivity

AN EVALUATION ON REMOTE WORKING METHOD IN CONTEXT OF WORK-LIFE BALANCE, PRODUCTIVITY, TRUST AND FLEXIBILITY

Abstract

Due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic, the remote working method has become a necessity rather than a choice for businesses and employees. This compelling and sudden change in working life created new conditions. In turn, they have brought the factors affecting employee productivity as a determining factor in the success of businesses to the agenda again. In this context, this study aims to examine the impact of flexible working conditions, the environment of trust and work-life balance variables on employees' productivity with a focus on remote working methods. The cross-sectional survey method is used as a data collection and analysis method in the research. The data obtained from 571 people and collected by convenience sampling were analyzed through the SPSS 20 program. In light of its findings, it has been found that the variables of flexibility, trust environment, and work-life balance were related to the productivity variable and that the flexibility and trust environment variables had a high explanatory power for the productivity variable. Although the work-life balance variable has a negative relationship with productivity, it has been found that its explanatory power is low. The findings are very inspiring for future studies, as they reveal the role played by the remote working as a widely used method today on productivity.

Keywords

Remote work, flexibility, trust, work-life balance, productivity

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