Remote Work Challenges: Work-Life Balance Issues and Job Stress During the Digital Era

Abstract

The given research examines the dilemmas of the remote work in digital age with particular emphasis on the work-life balance problems among the staff representatives of various industries and job stress as the problem. The study assesses the pattern of remote working, digital existence, and psychosocial results, based on survey data of 182 respondents. Findings have shown that workers spend 9.1 hours working on an average working day, utilize around 4.3 digital tools in one working day, and have increasing instances of work at after-hours on 3.6 working days per week which is a significant level of digital overload. The work-life indicators demonstrate that there is low levels of control (M = 2.4) and a very poor level of disconnection (M = 2.1) and very high work-family conflict (M = 3.8). The level of job stress was also high with a composite mean of 3.8 that was caused by the emotional exhaustion, and technological pressure. Correlation analysis demonstrated that job stress had a significant relationship with work-family conflict (r = 0.61) and the inability to disconnect (r = -0.68) and the regression was affirmative on the inability to disconnect ( = -0.42) as the most significant predictor of job stress. These observations make digital connectivity seem like a two-sided coin, with the results supporting the necessity of organisational responses that can facilitate healthier contact, decrease telepressure, and promote sustainable practices of remote work.