Telework: An exploration regarding its individual and organizational consequences

Covid-19 Pandemic has shown its effect in numerous fields all around the world. In terms of working life, remote working has become one of the most important elements of the pandemic period. In order to maintain social distance, most institutions have put remote working alternatives on the agenda and continued to work remotely with a hybrid model even after the pandemic. The results with regard to remote working period and the factors that may have an impact on teleworking have become important issues in the business world. The aim of this study is to discuss remote working by decomposing it to individual and organizational components. Accordingly, the mediating role of adjustment to remote work in the effect of technostress as individual factor and independence and clarity of job criteria as organizational factors on job performance and career satisfaction are examined in this study. The theoretical background of the study is based on Person-Environment Fit Theory, Work Adjustment Theory and Job Characteristics Theory. In the research, data was collected through the application of a questionnaire, one of the quantitative analysis methods, and the participants of the research are public and private sector employees who have experienced remote working during the Covid-19 Pandemic. The research data was collected from two hundred and six participants with the snowball sampling method by means of an online questionnaire. Research model analyzes covered in the study have been carried out using IBM SPSS Statistics 22, IBM SPSS AMOS 23 Graphics and Process Macro v4.2 F.Hayes tools. When the findings obtained as a result of the research are examined, it is seen that technostress has a negative effect on job performance and career satisfaction, additionally adjustment to remote work plays a mediating role in this relationship. It has been observed that the independence from the structural factors of the job does not have a statistically significant effect on job performance and career satisfaction. It has also been observed that the clarity of job criteria, which is one of the structural factors of the job, has a positive effect on job performance and career satisfaction; however, adjustment to remote work does not have a mediating role in this relationship.