| Abstrakt: |
Employers and employees are continuing to experiment with work-from-home patterns. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the "home office," a practice that has begun to slow down the pandemic by decreasing physical contact, has become the norm in Czechia. To fill a research gap in the new work-from-home (WFH) field, this paper's authors were interested in researching whether there are significant differences in Czech employees' perception between working remotely and going back into the office. An online questionnaire with 150 respondents was designed to answer the research question and test seven hypotheses. Data results for H3, H4, H5, and H6 were statistically proven. There are significantly more employees working from home at their own request than working from home solely at the company's request. Furthermore, employees with a separate office at home work there significantly more often than those without an individual office. The most common motivations for working from home are the absence of commuting (47.33%), flexibility (43.33%), and fewer interruptions (26%). In this context, while the acceptance of working from home has increased during the pandemic, the results from the survey suggest that the pandemic only had an accelerating effect. Most employees (>50%) have not changed their attitudes towards working from home. Only slightly more than a third of employees rate working in a home office enjoyable. Based on the received data, the tolerance of working from home in Czechia does not seem to withstand a downturn flexibility trend. In other words, the Czech workforce does not prefer working from home to become a fixture in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
