Telecommuting to improve quality-of-worklife of women workers in Lagos State tertiary institutions

A metropolitan city like Lagos, suffers the harsh situation of terrible traffic caused by over population and bad roads. To get to work punctually and return home on time is like a mirage to several workers. This definitely will affect performance and productivity of workers. Telecommuting has been found to be the solution to similar challenges in some other nations of the world. How far this quality-of-work life (QWL) programme has been implemented in Nigeria in general and Lagos State in particular, is the focus of this study. A survey was carried out on a randomly sampled 1000 (715 returned) women working in four government owned tertiary institutions in Lagos State of Nigeria, looking at a number of factors that could affect the QWL of workers. Interview was also administered on the executive officers of the institutions. Interval scale was used in scoring the Likert response options given for items on the questionnaire. It was found that women workers on a general note had a high level of organizational pressure factor influence on quality of work life. The recommended solution was for the management of institutions to come up with policies that promotes telecommuting as a means of reducing organizational pressure, increase productivity and increase the quality of work life.

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