The Effect of Teleworking on Anxiety During COVID-19: Turkey Example

Introduction

The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the lack of business level contingency to respond to crises (e.g., a that has created the need for reorganization in many organizations (Belzunegui-Eraso and Erro-Garcés, 2020). Many sectors had to give Unfortunately, about 8% of people are employed in closed sectors suggesting that they experience considerable wage losses (Duman, 2020). The outbreak of the pandemic has created the requirement for social distancing giving way to remote working (Prin and Bartels, 2020). Unfortunately one of the most important effect of Covid-19 pandemic has come about to be the slowdown, recession and constriction in the economies of almost all countries (Acar, 2020).

Actually, remote working or in other words teleworking has been constantly growing on all over the world in myriad sectors in the last few decades in relation to the digital revolution. However, the pandemic has created a huge necessity for teleworking (Contreras, Baykal and Abid (2020) among the sectors that mostly prefer teleworking, specifically service industry is prominent with the biggest percentage of workforce working remotely (17%), later comes the health industry (12%) and than comes the finance and banking sectors (10%), manufacturing sector (8.5%) and education sector (7.5%) (He et al., 2020). The Covid-19 example has showed us the fact that individuals with high strength to cope with difficulties and lower levels of anxiety can overcome this test more easily (Baykal, 2020c: 23). Hence in this study, it is atempted to see what properties of teleworkers are important in their tendencies to feel anxious. Factors including age, gender and sector has been investigated in the hypotheses of the study.