The Effect of Compulsory Home Work Order on Workers' Work-Home Conflicts and Health in the Shadow of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study

The aim of the project is to examine the work-family conflict experienced by those who work from home because of the frequency of working from home, and the effects of this conflict on stress symptoms and satisfaction levels, and to investigate the regulatory roles of individual and organizational factors in these relations. When the weekly data collected for 8 weeks in May-July 2020 were analyzed, it was found that as the number of days worked from home increased, the frequency of transitions from work to home and from home to work increased. In addition, it was observed that the effect of the frequency of working from home on the frequency of transition from work to home was lower in those who used tactics to protect work from home, and higher in those who spent more time at home. When the effect of transitions was examined, it was determined that the frequency of transition from work to home increased the feeling of conflict from home to work and the frequency of transition from home to work increased the feeling of conflict from home to home. However, the relationship between the frequency of home-to-work transition of family support and work-to-work conflict; It was also found that the support received from the manager weakened the relationship between the frequency of work-to-home transition and home-to-work conflict. Work-to-home and home-to-work conflict levels were positive on psychological and physical stress symptoms; It has been observed that there are negative effects on general satisfaction and satisfaction with work and family performance. In addition, the relationship between work-to-home conflict and physical stress was found to be lower in those who exhibit protective behaviors. It is understood that the two-way transitions between work and home in those working from home increase the role conflicts between the fields, while conflicts increase the difficulty and decrease the satisfaction. In this process, it was seen that the efforts of the employees to protect their jobs from their homes gave more positive results than the efforts to protect their homes from their jobs. In addition, it is understood that those who cannot receive support from their families and managers, and women with children who undertake the household burden more, are more negatively affected by the system of working from home during the pandemic period. It is thought that adopting family-friendly practices, keeping job demands within working hours, providing protective behavior trainings and providing technological support will benefit employees and organizations.