A measure of job satisfaction in remote work using technostress and work-life conflict as mediators

Abstract

Remote working is becoming more common in all organizations. Although remote working has positive outcomes on employees and organizations nowadays, negative aspects due to technostress has also been reported in recent articles. Despite the increased interest in technostress, only a very few research work deals with the impact of technostress in remote working. So, we aimed to investigate the relationship of job satisfaction in remote working with an emphasis on the mediating roles of techno stress and work-life conflict. Also, the study looks at the elements which influences Job satisfaction in remote working as well as the reduction of technostress that can be done to provide workers a sense of a working environment in their homes. In this regard, we conducted a survey of 547 IT employees to investigate the level of job satisfaction in remote work with the help of key players like technostress and Work life conflict. The results of the study revealed that research on remote working significantly had a negative impact among employees by examining the effects of such encounters and introducing significant critical techno stressors that diminish levels of flow at work.