The mediatory role of organizational trust in the effect of organizational support on workplace loneliness in virtual organizations

Virtual organizations, in contrast to traditional organizational structures, offer flexibility by minimizing time and space constraints. But working in a virtual environment also presents additional difficulties for staff members, like language barriers, cultural differences, and workplace loneliness. This study's main goal is to ascertain how organizational support affects workplace loneliness in virtual organizations and how organizational trust mediates this impact. In this instance, 202 workers of two globally operating virtual companies with headquarters in Turkey provided data via a survey method. Regression analysis was performed on the collected data, and the results indicate that organizational support promotes social companionship and reduces emotional deprivation. Furthermore, organizational support has a major and favorable impact on organizational trust in virtual companies. Furthermore, the effect of organizational support on social companionship and emotional deprivation was fully mediated by organizational trust. Based on the study's findings, virtual organizational structure recommendations are given.