A Descriptive Study on University Students’ Perspectives and Opinions on Teleworking Method For Human Resource Policies of Businesses

The evolving technology has a direct impact on the lives of individuals and changes their lifestyles. Generation Y grown intertwined with technology and Z generation intertwined with technology from the moment of their birth emerge as the generations most affected from this change. This new generation is particularly different in terms of their working environments than the previous generation. Especially, the fact that this generation is overly sensitive to freedom, has a self-conscious structure and uses technology very well revives also the subject that this generation can be assessed in a different way in terms of performance and efficiency in businesses. Advances in technology have directly influenced the steps in the production of goods and services, from production to final customer. Now, thanks to technology, many businesses have moved out of the office and started pushing boundaries. The emerging table has also brought “teleworking” concept up for discussion of technology and future employees. In this study, a practice was made for the concept of flexible working and its subtype teleworking. In the study, university students’ opinions on teleworking were discussed while planning their future careers as future employees. As a result of the research, it was revealed that the young generation, today’s university students and future employees, wanted to choose teleworking method at a percentage of seventy and more and thought that this method would increase their business performance. In the study, it was emphasized that enterprises should give more emphasis to teleworking subject while determining human resources policies in the future and pay attention to the factor effect of this subject