Impact of Flexible Work Arrangements on Workers' Productivity in Information and Communication Technology Sector: An Empirical Study of the Gaza Strip ICT Firms

This research aimed to highlight the concept of flexibility in work and to study the impact of five types of flexible work arrangements (FWAs) on workers' productivity in information and communication technology sector, as an empirical study of the Gaza strip information and communication technology companies. The study used the analytical descriptive methodology and used a questionnaire distributed to a sample consisting of 178 employees who are working in the information and communication technology companies. Using the statistical methods and processed through SPSS program, the most notable finding of the study was the presence of the positive impact of flexible work arrangements on workers' productivity since 65.68% of the employees agreed on that. The study recommended that information and communication technology companies should raise the awareness of the management and staff about FWAs programs and its importance and its great effects on employees' productivity. The researchers recommended companies to support family-friendly organizational culture and to go toward writing companies policies and laws that lay down the applicability of various FWAs and govern the selection processes among the various FWAs

Work-Life Balance Among Working Married Women: What Social Workers Need to Know

This project explored the way working mothers cope with home, work, family demands as well as self-care. It mainly focused on the balance they have been able to achieve in their lives as working women, wife, and mothers. This study used qualitative research to examine the challenges these women face in their working and personal lives, the support systems they rely on to fulfill their multiple roles, and the strategies and coping skills they utilize to maintain work and family life balance. This study used an interview format with a qualitative method based. In this approach, primarily open-ended questions were used. The major focus was to explore and then compared participants’ responses to those questions. This method was chosen because it allows for a comparison of different experiences of a common topic The challenges discussed by the working women included: (a) work schedule, (b) time constraints and (c) exhaustion. The participants relied on the following support systems to fulfill their multiple roles: (a) husbands, (b) grandparent and family, (c) co-workers, and (d) bosses. Finally, the strategies the working women used to achieve work/family balance included (a) planning, (c) faith, and (d) accepting limitations