A Review on the Impact of Telecommuting on Personal and Professional Life

Telecommuting effects on various aspects of personal and professional life, such as productivity, work-life balance, performance, quality of life and job satisfaction. Due to limited knowledge regarding these impacts, the present study was conducted to review the  evidences to conclude the overall effects of telework on personal and professional life of individuals who telework. 

In this study key search was done between 2000 and 2021 in databases of science direct, web of science, pubMed, scopus, magiran and google scholar. Keywords were telecommuting, teleworking, productivity, job satisfaction, work-life balance, work- life conflict, stress and performance. 

This study showed telecommuting can have positive and negative effects on various aspects of personal and professional life, such as productivity, job satisfaction, work-life balance, and quality of work performance, work-life conflict and stress. Type of organization, community, family and the telecommuter himself  were various influential factors in this regard.

Due to the importance of the organizational productivity, family and community progress, and the telecommuter himself satisfaction, more attention should be paid to these  factors during Covid -19 prevalence. It is also recommended to conduct more studies on the effects of telecommuting on personal and professional life.