Effect of work from home on employees during pandemic –An analysis

Abstract

The Covid 2019 has totally changed our perspective of life and affected all walks of life in away unimaginable. It has shattered many myths, beliefs and exposed opposing facets of   human mind. Curtailed movement of People to prevent the spread of the Contagion prodded   to find novel means of carrying out business and economic activity. As Calvin Coolidge Stated “All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work”.

The availability of Internet with high speed has enabled us to device ways to carry out activities from our Homes. Ironically, the pressure on health workers compelled them to work 24*7 staying put at the hospitals in a sort of work from H, H for hospitals which is antithesis of Work from Home, we normally know. In this study, an attempt is made to collect information from a set of people, collate them feelings, perception and views and utilize the data to arrive at a conclusion about the impact of prospect, adequacy, desirability and sustainability of the Work from Home arrangement. The Questionnaire used for this study consists of three parts that called for details regarding-Personal data, Organizational data and employee’s perception on various issues questions were framed in different way to ensure or verify consistency of the respondents. A self-structured Questionnaire was made by the Researchers for data collection. Google forms is used to collect the data. The universe of the study is employees working from Home in different sectors like Education, Information Technology and so on. The Researcher collected 200 responses by employing purposive sampling which comes under a non-probability sampling method. The data is coded and transformed into SPSS for the analysis..