Changing Facet of Work Habits during Coronavirus Pandemic: An Exploration of E-Work and Its Implications on Work-Life Balance for Female Employees

Abstract

Covid-19 radically shifted the way of work and its organization and that’s why, the purpose of the paper is to explore the impact of remote e-working on work-life balance for female teachers since they commenced to work in a remote way for educational purposes. The first coronavirus case was officially detected in March, 2020 in Turkey and the schools including the private ones were closed and EBA (Network of Education Informatics) TVs and its online platforms for teaching were established and all teachers started to teach in these platforms in a remote way. As a result of the pandemic, the distinction of work and non-work life was eliminated through technology use and these two became integrated. Measuring the effect of technology and e-working on work-life balance has become a ‘must’ for labor relations in these changing dynamics. The paper is an exploratory study of remote work and its influence on keeping work-life balance using qualitative thematic analysis of fourteen in depth interviews with female teachers from state institutions in Turkey. All these participants worked remotely by means of technology, which is the core of the study.