Impacts of Covid-19 on Employees: An Evaluation in the Context of Aviation, Logistics, Finance, Textile and Health Sectors

Abstract

The study aims to examine in depth how the employees representing five independent sectors, namely Finance, Logistics, Aviation, Health, and Textile, which may be affected differently by the epidemic process due to their unique dynamics, are affected by the epidemic process. In the study, the data collected through 10 different group focus meetings held with the zoom conference program from a total of 48 participants, 21 women and 27 men, representing five different sectors, were analyzed with the MAXQDA 2021 package program. The most important contribution of the research is to reveal the importance of technological opportunities and information resources in terms of determining the working environment, and accordingly, to reveal the paradigm change experienced by the employees who had to stay in their homes during the epidemic. The findings obtained by the analysis of the data sets collected from the interviewees in this study revealed the existence of a strong relationship between "Technology" and "Information Sources", which are among the themes used in the research.In the study, it was observed that the measures taken to combat the epidemic could not be institutionalized, and accordingly, the rules that came into force to cope with the epidemic by the employees were not fully internalized.