Remote working as a type of flexible working and a related case study in Istanbul Aydın University

In this study, job satisfaction is handled considering flexible working. It is examined whether job satisfaction or job satisfaction factors differs acording to the demographic facts of gender, age, educational background and marital status of the participants. Within the context of flexible working, data on job satisfaction and demographic aspects of lecturers, who lecture in class and in distance education, in a private university is collected. Following the credibility of collected data, exploratory factor analysis is carried out to reveal the statistical structure of job satisfaction either in class environment or in distance education. Following, it is examined whether job satisfaction factors according to each demographic factors differ or not. Therefore, the aim of this study is to reveal the relation of job satisfaction factors with demographic factors. According to the results of the study, job satisfaction of lecturing in class environment is grounded on three and job satisfaction of lecturing in distance education is grounded on four factors. Participants? job satisfaction factors aren?t presented according to almost any of the demographic factors. In the sense of another attained result, while participants satisfy mediumlevel job satisfaction, they are matter of being satisfied in high level in terms of other factors. Keywords: Flexible working, job satisfaction, factors affecting job satisfaction, higher educatio