The Effect of Remote-work Attitude on Life Satisfaction: Investigating the Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic emerged amid the transformations created by technological advances in working life and has led to the peak of remote and hybrid working settings worldwide. The present study aims to focus on the mediating role of job satisfaction regarding the relation between remote working and life satisfaction. The sample of the study consists of 415 white-collar workers living in different regions of Turkey, with at least an undergraduate degree, and has remote-working experience during the Covid-19 pandemic. SmartPLS 3 package program was used in the analysis of the data. As a result, we found that only skill development and organizational support dimensions of the remote working attitude affect job and life satisfaction. Also, we found that job satisfaction has a partial mediating role between skill development and life satisfaction. However, in the case of the relationship between organizational support and life satisfaction, job satisfaction emerged as a full mediator.