Covid-19 Pandemisinde Uzaktan Çalışma, 7/24 Mesai ve Gözetim: Sıradan Bir Yabancılaşmanın “Olağan” Anatomisi
Teleworking, 24/7 Working and Surveillance in the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Extra “Ordinary” Anatomy of an Ordinary Alienation

Author(s): Hacı Hasan SAF
Subject(s): Communication studies, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Covid-19; telework; surveillance; alienation;
Summary/Abstract: The work action which is necessary for people to survive; based on obtaining food, shelter, protection and building a better life in the traditional society. These mandatory situations were originally planned according to the sunrise and sunset conditions and seasonal changes. With its modern life style and production relations, work has become one of the most important factors affecting the life of the individual, which is determining his social status and organizing his life in the post-modern society. In the Covid-19 pandemic, which is an extraordinary situation, a style that seems temporary but is unknown when it will end is carried out with tele and home working models. This model, which is different from the practices that the work has continued for thousands of years, causes many negative effects on the employee. In this model, which is carried out only with internet and communication technology, away from the working environment, the individual both builds his whole day on working and is surrounded by surveillance practices. Such situations affect the socio-psychological status of the employees, and cases such as physical and psychological problems emerge. The aim of the study is to analyze the 24/7 remote working model applied during the pandemic period, which is an extraordinary situation, and the surveillance practices that appear in this model, and to reveal their effects on alienation. At the end of the study, the negative consequences on the individual caused by the surveillance practices that cause employee alienation will be listed.

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