Investigating Remote Working Spaces during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ramazan Sarı; Ekrem Bahadır Çalışkan; Muhammet Fatih Ak

doi:10.30785/mbud.1300331

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Investigating Remote Working Spaces during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The business world has experienced a pandemic for three years, affecting the workforce's productivity and efficiency. Since workers' well-being and satisfaction are crucial to effective workforce management, organizations and authorities make the employee's well-being and satisfaction the primary target to be achieved even in the post-pandemic period. Many countries and organizations have developed strategies to meet the emerging requirements of the business world. Like other countries, many of the workgroups in Türkiye were also forced to adopt working-from-home (WFH) practices. Although a substantial number of research studies were conducted for investigating well-being and productivity, there is still a need for empirical studies investigating WFH satisfaction and the well-being of workers to be used as a reference and guide for research. A survey was designed and implemented among employees from Türkiye to inspect and measure negative and positive relations between the physical work environment, well-being, and satisfaction of WFH workers. Regarding the range of participants, the survey results could be generalized to illustrate challenges, conditions, and aspects of working-from-home practices in Türkiye to define remote working spaces.

Keywords

Remote working, employee comfort, working conditions, Covid-19, space features

Thanks

The article complies with national and international research and publication ethics. Ethics Committee approval in the study was taken from the Ethics Committee of the University of Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt with the decision no 2022-05.

Covid- 19 Pandemisi Süresince Uzaktan Çalışma Mekanlarının Araştırılması

Abstract

İş dünyası üç yıldır süren bir pandemi deneyimi yaşadı ve bu durum işgücünün verimliliği ve etkinliği üzerinde etkili oldu. Çalışanları refahı ve memnuniyeti etkili işgücü yönetimi için önemli olduğundan, kuruluşlar ve yetkililer, çalışanların refahını ve memnuniyetini pandemic sonrası dönemde bile ulaşılması gereken birincil hedef olarak belirlemektedir. Birçok ülke ve kuruluş, iş dünyasının ortaya çıkan gereksinimlerini karşılamak için stratejiler geliştirmiştir. Diğer ülkeler gibi, Türkiye'deki birçok çalışma grubu da evden çalışma uygulamalarını benimsemek zorunda kalmıştır. Performans, refah ve verimlilki konusunda önemli sayıda araştırma yapılmış olmasına rağmen, çalışanların evden çalışma memnuniyeti ve refahını inceleyen ampirik çalışmalara ihtiyaç duyulmaktadır. Bu tür çalışmalar, referans ve araştırma rehberi olarak kullanılmak üzere Türkiye’deki çalışanların evden çalışma memnuniyeti ve refahını incelemek ve ölçmek için bir anket tasarlanmış ve uygulanmıştır. Katılımcılar aralığı açısından, anket sonuçları, zorlukları, koşulları ve evden çalışma uygulamalarının yönlerini belirlemek için genelleştirilebilir ve Türkiye'deki uzaktan çalışma alanlarını tanımlayabilir.

Keywords

Uzaktan çalışma, çalışan konforu, çalışma koşulları, Covid-19, mekan özellikleri

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English

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Architecture (Other)

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Research Article

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Ramazan Sarı
0000-0001-8936-5716
Türkiye

Ekrem Bahadır Çalışkan ^*
0000-0002-5258-2976
Türkiye

Muhammet Fatih Ak
0000-0003-4342-296X
Türkiye

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December 16, 2023

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May 22, 2023

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November 15, 2023

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Year 2023 Volume: 8 Number: 2

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Sarı, R., Çalışkan, E. B., & Ak, M. F. (2023). Investigating Remote Working Spaces during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Architectural Sciences and Applications, 8(2), 829-846. https://doi.org/10.30785/mbud.1300331

AMA

1.Sarı R, Çalışkan EB, Ak MF. Investigating Remote Working Spaces during the COVID-19 Pandemic. JASA. 2023;8(2):829-846. doi:10.30785/mbud.1300331

Chicago

Sarı, Ramazan, Ekrem Bahadır Çalışkan, and Muhammet Fatih Ak. 2023. “Investigating Remote Working Spaces During the COVID-19 Pandemic”. Journal of Architectural Sciences and Applications 8 (2): 829-46. https://doi.org/10.30785/mbud.1300331.

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Sarı R, Çalışkan EB, Ak MF (December 1, 2023) Investigating Remote Working Spaces during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Architectural Sciences and Applications 8 2 829–846.

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[1]R. Sarı, E. B. Çalışkan, and M. F. Ak, “Investigating Remote Working Spaces during the COVID-19 Pandemic”, JASA, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 829–846, Dec. 2023, doi: 10.30785/mbud.1300331.

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Sarı, Ramazan - Çalışkan, Ekrem Bahadır - Ak, Muhammet Fatih. “Investigating Remote Working Spaces During the COVID-19 Pandemic”. Journal of Architectural Sciences and Applications 8/2 (December 1, 2023): 829-846. https://doi.org/10.30785/mbud.1300331.

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1.Sarı R, Çalışkan EB, Ak MF. Investigating Remote Working Spaces during the COVID-19 Pandemic. JASA. 2023;8:829–846.

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Sarı, Ramazan, et al. “Investigating Remote Working Spaces During the COVID-19 Pandemic”. Journal of Architectural Sciences and Applications, vol. 8, no. 2, Dec. 2023, pp. 829-46, doi:10.30785/mbud.1300331.

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1.Ramazan Sarı, Ekrem Bahadır Çalışkan, Muhammet Fatih Ak. Investigating Remote Working Spaces during the COVID-19 Pandemic. JASA. 2023 Dec. 1;8(2):829-46. doi:10.30785/mbud.1300331

Investigating Remote Working Spaces during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Investigating Remote Working Spaces during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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