Abstract
Information and communications technologies (ICT) had played a big role in helping the Egyptian economy through the rapid growth of IT investment. It had opened a lot of job opportunities in front of thousands of Egyptian youth who have professional IT skills. Remote work (also known as telework, virtual work, off-site work, anywhere work or flexible workplace) is one of the great options for flexible work arrangement in ICT, it can boost the IT investment if applied widely in Egypt through multinational organizations that’s why we felt the importance to investigate the remote working concept in the research .The research addressed the benefits of remote working on the employee and IT organizations level. It is focusing on remote working concepts and impact on the employee as well as the benefits for IT organizations .We found that Remote working is one of the partial solutions provided through IT to unemployment problems especially among Egyptian females who face problems with the life balance between child care and work. Remote work is a fast growing employment field that has opened up new opportunities for women using ICT to enable them to work from their homes utilizing flexible working hours and location. Managers face new challenges with supervising remote workers, monitoring their performance and evaluating their virtual teams. Remote management is a key factor in the success of remote work.
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