scholarly journals Research note: Job Satisfaction and working from home in Romania, before and during Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Ioana Țălnar-Naghi
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Longitudinal Data ◽  
Work Life ◽  
New Work ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Working From Home

Based on ICTs development, telework is a rapidly changing phenomenon (Eurofound, 2017) and has provoked many debates on how it influences people's lives (Allen, Golden and Shockley, 2015; Golden, 2009), allowing people to work from anywhere and anytime via laptops, tablets, and smartphones (Maitland and Thomson, 2014). The Covid-19 outbreak accelerated social change and led to a forced entry of entire segments of the workforce into telework. The change was steep in particular for countries with a lower pre-pandemic incidence of working from home, such as Romania. Using longitudinal data from an original series of surveys (Voicu et al. 2020) carried out in 2018 and during the Spring 2020 lockdown in Romania, the paper aims to explore the job satisfaction of those working-from-home in relation to work-life boundaries, before and during the quarantine period. Findings are useful for a deeper understanding of how new work arrangements influence tele-workers' perceptions of their quality of life. Results indicate that while before the pandemic, the job satisfaction of those working from home was increasing with the age of the respondent (the younger being more satisfied with working from home), that trend changed during quarantine, and job satisfaction increased significantly for people over 40. Additionally, working more hours before the pandemic is associated with lower job satisfaction scores during COVID-19 quarantine. Keywords: work from home; job satisfaction; WLB, pandemic; teleworkers. ●●●●● Bazată pe dezvoltarea TIC, telemunca reprezintă un fenomen de schimbare rapidă (Eurofound 2017) ce a provocat numeroase dezbateri cu privire la modul în care influențează viața oamenilor (Allen, Golden și Shockley 2015; Golden 2009), permițând acum acestora să lucreze de oriunde și oricând prin intermediul laptopurilor, tabletelor și smartphone-urilor (Maitland and Thomson 2014). Declanșarea crizei Covid-19 a accelerat schimbările sociale și a dus la o intrare forțată a întregii populații în telemuncă. Schimbarea accelerată s-a produs în special în țările cu incidență pre-pandemică scăzută în ceea ce privește experiența de a lucra de acasă, cum este cazul României. Folosind date longitudinale provenite dintr-un sondaj online despre munca de acasă (Voicu et al. 2020), efectuat în 2018 și în timpul carantinei din primăvara lui 2020 în România, lucrarea își propune să exploreze satisfacția muncii în rândul celor care lucrează de acasă, în raport cu limitele echilibrului dintre viața profesională și cea personală, înainte și în timpul perioadei de carantină. Constatările sunt utile pentru o înțelegere mai profundă a modului în care noile aranjamente de lucru influențează percepțiile telelucrătorilor asupra calității vieții. Rezultatele indică faptul că, în timp ce înainte de pandemie, satisfacția la locul de muncă a celor care lucrau de acasă scădea odată cu vârsta respondentului (cel mai tânăr fiind mai mulțumit de munca de acasă), această tendință s-a schimbat în timpul carantinei, iar satisfacția la locul de muncă a crescut exponențial pentru persoanele peste 40 de ani. În plus, a lucra mai multe ore înainte de pandemie este asociat cu scoruri mai mici de satisfacție la locul de muncă în timpul carantinei COVID-19. Cuvinte-cheie: munca de acasă; satisfacția muncii; „WLB”; pandemie; telelucrători.

A Study on the Impact of Work from Home on Employees Productivity in the IT Sector

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Sneha Shankar Shetty
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Occupational Stress ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Productivity Level ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Working From Home ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact

This study is based on how does work from home impacts employee’s productivity in IT sector. The main aim of this particular study was to conduct an in depth research in order to understand the experiences of employees which they had while working from home and to understand whether there was any effect of working from home on employees productivity. Exploratory and Descriptive Research was conducted which was carried through questionnaire. This approach was taken in order to collect employee’s opinions and experiences and to observe if there were any trends emerged in relation to employee’s productivity while working from home. The study reveals that there is a significant impact of work from home on employee’s productivity level. Despite there were mixed opinions whether employees performance was low or high while working from home, however employees also shared their opinions on how their productivity levels be affected negatively if working from home was removed. Overall it was clear to observe the high level of positivity surrounding due to work from home and how it impacted positively not only on employee’s productivity but also on employee’s work life balance, job satisfaction, occupational stress and motivation of employees.

scholarly journals Strategies for Maintaining Work–Life Balance and Their Consequences for Quality of Life and Job Satisfaction

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. e27578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Andersz ◽  
Joanna Czarnota-Bojarska ◽  
Katarzyna Wojtkowska
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Work Roles ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Family And Work ◽  
Work Family

Interest in issues surrounding work–life balance has increased in recent years. Some studies stress the consequences of work–life balance, while others put emphasis on the ways in which people manage to keep the balance. We decided to combine both points of view. The presented study focuses on personal strategies for combining family and work roles and their consequences for maintaining the work–family balance and satisfaction with work and quality of life. There were 289 participants in the study. The instruments used were Work–Family Linkage Questionnaire, Work–Family Fit Questionnaire, Satisfaction of Life Scale and Job Satisfaction Scale. The procedure of adapting the Work–Family Linkage Questionnaire (WFLQ) into Polish was conducted to enable the use of the tool in Poland for the first time. Good psychometric properties of WFLQ were confirmed. The results showed that the individual strategy for combining family and work roles determines the work–home balance, as well as satisfaction with life and career. For example, the amount of negative spillover from home and from work was correlated positively with role conflict and negatively with satisfaction with life, while the amount of positive spillover correlated positively with facilitation and experienced satisfaction with life.

scholarly journals Factors influencing employee’s quality of life during COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-174
Author(s):  
Indah Mulyani ◽  
Wahyu Rahardjo ◽  
Inge Andriani ◽  
Nurul Qomariyah
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Type D Personality ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Type D ◽  
Work From Home

One result of the COVID-19 pandemic for the wider community, especially employees, is the need to carry out physical distancing in the form of work from home. This phenomenon certainly has consequences on the quality of life felt by employees. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the quality of life of employees who work from home is influenced by variables such as type D personality, anxiety, technology overload, and work-life balance. Participants in this study were 486 employees living in Jakarta Greater Area who worked from home because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were recruited by purposive sampling using online questionnaire. Measurements were made using a measuring tool from each variable using a quantitative approach. Hierarchical regression is used as a data analysis technique. The findings of this research show that all independent variables have an influence on quality of life. However, anxiety has the smallest influence and type D personality has the greatest effect. Meanwhile, like work-life balance, technology overload has positive effect on quality of life. That is, internal and external factors can have different effects on the quality of life felt by employees who work from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Quality of life of women working from home in COVID-19 lockdown: a questionnaire survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 3947
Author(s):  
Suruthi Raju ◽  
Vijay Krishna Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Working From Home ◽  
The Family ◽  
Community Transmission

Background: Lockdown as a precaution is aimed to reduce the community transmission and to defeat the pandemic COVID-19. The pandemic lockdown has an impact on lifestyle strategies in work from home employees.Methods: A cross sectional, questionnaire study with observational sampling of size no. 110 was conducted through web based data collection (google form) across India.Results: Data shows lockdown impact on lifestyle strategies like physical health, psychological health, social relationship and environmental factors of working from home employees were found significant. Majority of participants (working from home women) showed better quality of life in lockdown.Conclusions: This web-based survey shows significant results to highlight that women can balance their life style strategies with daily routine in COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Lockdown situation made women more active, mobile and balance their official work along with the family setup. 67.3% respondents were married and working from home and 48% of participants maintaining their better quality of life since lockdown.

scholarly journals A STUDY ON WORK LIFE BALANCE OF WOMEN EMPLOYEES IN IT SECTOR

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-73
Author(s):  
G. Balamurugan ◽  
M. Sreeleka
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Women Employees

Work life balance of women employees plays the major role because they have to manage their personal life for their good quality of life. The employee’s satisfaction is based on the employee to be happy and deliver the level best. Even in the Worst scenario the employee is very loyal to their organization because of the employee Satisfaction. The quality of life is based on the professional life of each and every women employee who are coming forward to support to their family. The problem of the women employee’s face is health condition, Pregnancy discrimination, Sexual harassment, no equal pay, etc. This paper says that how the women employees are balanced and Satisfied  in IT sector and the factors that affect the work life balance of women employees are working hours, Job satisfaction, working condition, etc. and find out the women employee job satisfaction were analyzed by using statistical method that is Chi-square and Correlation test.

scholarly journals Work from Home: Measuring Satisfaction between Work–Life Balance and Work Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia

Economies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Dodi Wirawan Irawanto ◽  
Khusnul Rofida Novianti ◽  
Kenny Roz
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Work Stress ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Positive Sign ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Working From Home ◽  
Home Work ◽  
The Impact

Coronavirus (COVID-19), which hit in early 2020, changed the way people live and work, and affected industries and organizations all over the world. Many organizations have begun to deliver a new way of working to adapt to these shifts effectively using teleworking or a work from home policy. The purpose of this study was to fill the gaps by investigating several potential predictors of job satisfaction during working from home from the impact of COVID-19 such as work–life balance and work stress. Using a quantitative approach, 472 workers who were forced to work from home all over Indonesia participated, and the responses were analyzed using Smart-PLS software. The study revealed that working from home, work–life balance, and work stress have a significant effect, both directly and indirectly, on job satisfaction. Working from home as a new pace of work can sustain job satisfaction as the current working atmosphere for Indonesian workers. In response to the collectivist setting, working from home can be a positive sign that needs to be paid attention to for the organization.

scholarly journals The Dark Side of Virtual Office and Job Satisfaction

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jindan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Social Relation ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Quality Of Work Life ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Virtual Office ◽  
The Impact

<p>Virtual offices have been a growing trend in today’s work environment and have been used to improve organizational performance for several decades. However, more and more companies also experience the challenges and problems brought by the use of virtual office in current years. One famous example would be the Yahoo’s decision to withdraw its work-from-home program. Therefore, the studies about the dark side of virtual office start to attract interests from researchers and practitioners. This paper aims at providing a critical view of the changes in employees’ work life due to the shift to virtual office from four perspectives: communication, social relation, achievement recognition and work-life balance. This paper also discusses the impact of such changes on employees’ quality of work life in terms of job satisfaction. This paper intends to conceptually extend the understanding of alternative working arrangements by considering the “dark side” of virtual office in employees’ work life. </p>

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