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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected not only human health but also the way people perform their jobs due to restrictions and concerns. During this period, working from home caused the intertwining of house responsibilities and work for employees. The aim of this study is to examine the effects of work-related strains (role ambiguity, workload, job stress, and burnout) and conflicts arising from family and work relations on the job satisfaction of teachers who have to do their work from home due to restrictions. We generated a structural equation model to examine the effect of family-work conflict on work strains and work-family conflict on job satisfaction, based on Job Demand-Resource (JDR) and Work-Family Conflict (WFC) theories. The 279 data obtained with the convenience sampling method in the Hatay population, which is widely used and has high levels of validity and reliability of scales, was tested using the partial least squares method (PLS-SEM). As a result of the analysis, 11 of the 15 hypotheses created for the model were accepted. In particular, the hypotheses explaining the effect of family-work conflict on job strain and job satisfaction were more significant. This study states that JDR and WFC theories can be considered together with the necessity of working from home. It is suggested to managers and policymakers that the family atmosphere should also be taken into account in job designs.