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 Volume 6, Issue 11 (November 2019), Pages: 55-67

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Information and communication technology applications and their role in providing telecommuting job opportunities: A practical study on the private sector in Riyadh southern provinces

 Author(s): Abed Saif Ahmed Alghawli 1, *, Abdulwasea Abdulghani Saif Almekhlafi 2

 Affiliation(s):

 1Computer Science Department, College of Science and Humanities at Aflaj, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
 2Business Administration Department, Community College at Al-Kharj, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6586-2141

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2019.11.008

 Abstract:

This study examines: (1) the relationship between modern ICT applications and telecommunications in providing telecommuting job opportunities, (2) the differences among the average responses of the sample for modern applications of ICT based on sector type and company size, and (3) the relative importance of private sector preferences for modern ICT applications among private sector incorporating in Southern Riyadh provinces. The final sample of this study consists of 124 CEOs, managers, and deputy managers from 80 companies. Using a survey-based method in 2017, the results of this study indicate that the mastery of job seekers for ICT applications (combined) provides telecommuting job opportunities in the study sample city with an average of (3.14); the mastery of job seekers for (chat applications) provides telecommuting job opportunities in the study sample with an average  of 3.96; the mastery of job seekers for work-from-home applications (virtual classroom applications and remote assistance applications) provides telecommuting job opportunities in the study sample with an average of 3.57; the mastery of job seekers for computer programs (office software) provides telecommuting job opportunities in the study sample with an average of 3.95; the mastery of job seekers for accounting and statistics programs does not lead to providing telecommuting job opportunities in the study sample as the average was 2.98; the mastery of job seekers for social networking applications (social networks) provides telecommuting job opportunities in the study sample, where the average was 3.62; the mastery of job seekers for designing programs provides telecommuting job opportunities in the study sample, with an average of 3.40; the mastery of job seekers for engineering planning programs does not lead to providing telecommuting job opportunities in the study sample, as the average was 2.14; and the existence of such kind of differences is due to demographic characteristics and their impact on the use of ICT applications. 

 © 2019 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Information and communication technology applications (ICTA), Job seekers, Private companies, Riyadh

 Article History: Received 16 June 2019, Received in revised form 1 September 2019, Accepted 3 September 2019

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 Conflict of interest:  The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

 Citation:

 Alghawli ASA and Almekhlafi AAS (2019). Information and communication technology applications and their role in providing telecommuting job opportunities: A practical study on the private sector in Riyadh southern provinces. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 6(11): 55-67

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