Impact of Work from Home During the Pandemic in Saudi Arabia

Omar Hammad; Shivakant Mishra

doi:10.1109/ASONAM55673.2022.10068624

Impact of Work from Home During the Pandemic in Saudi Arabia

Omar Hammad, Shivakant Mishra

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

Abstract

The unprecedented health situation in the year 2020 and to some extent 2021 has forced most businesses to operate online with people working from home (WFH). Like almost all countries in the world, Saudi Arabia has suffered from the shocking unstable health situation facing the COVID-19 pandemic. This study investigates different WFH impressions and behaviors that Saudi employees have built during the pandemic and how that has changed over time. We have conducted surveys in two different phases among Saudi employees that have come from varied personal and job-related demographics, including different gender, marital status, cities, managerial roles, job sectors and company sizes. Our data provides a good comprehensive coverage along different demographics. Key findings includes that for 75% of the people it was a brand new experience especially for big companies employees, people's performance and satisfaction depended on the sector that they work for and their marital status, while life work split was the top challenge and flexibility was the top advantage.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2022
Editors	Jisun An, Chelmis Charalampos, Walid Magdy
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	415-420
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665456616
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ASONAM55673.2022.10068624
State	Published - 2022
Externally published	Yes
Event	14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2022 - Virtual, Online, Turkey Duration: 10 Nov 2022 → 13 Nov 2022

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2022

Conference

Conference	14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2022
Country/Territory	Turkey
City	Virtual, Online
Period	10/11/22 → 13/11/22

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.

Keywords

Behavior
Remote
Saudi Arabia
Work from Home

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Networks and Communications
Information Systems
Information Systems and Management
Communication

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Hammad, O., & Mishra, S. (2022). Impact of Work from Home During the Pandemic in Saudi Arabia. In J. An, C. Charalampos, & W. Magdy (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2022 (pp. 415-420). (Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2022). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ASONAM55673.2022.10068624

Hammad, Omar ; Mishra, Shivakant. / Impact of Work from Home During the Pandemic in Saudi Arabia. Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2022. editor / Jisun An ; Chelmis Charalampos ; Walid Magdy. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022. pp. 415-420 (Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2022).

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Hammad, O & Mishra, S 2022, Impact of Work from Home During the Pandemic in Saudi Arabia. in J An, C Charalampos & W Magdy (eds), Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2022. Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2022, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 415-420, 14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2022, Virtual, Online, Turkey, 10/11/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/ASONAM55673.2022.10068624

Impact of Work from Home During the Pandemic in Saudi Arabia. / Hammad, Omar; Mishra, Shivakant.
Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2022. ed. / Jisun An; Chelmis Charalampos; Walid Magdy. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022. p. 415-420 (Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2022).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Hammad O, Mishra S. Impact of Work from Home During the Pandemic in Saudi Arabia. In An J, Charalampos C, Magdy W, editors, Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2022. p. 415-420. (Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2022). doi: 10.1109/ASONAM55673.2022.10068624

Impact of Work from Home During the Pandemic in Saudi Arabia

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