THE CONCEPT OF WORK FROM HOME AND ITS IMPLICATIONS IN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

ABSTRACT

Work from home is a new concept which is widely introduced all over the world due to covid 19 Pandemic. Before pandemic the wfh was only restricted to some big organizations where outsourcing was done through software's hardly contributing 5% of the total work flow. But the covid pandemic influenced the work from home culture throughout the world. Even in India wfh has covered major sectors including education. Most of the meetings, customer support services, supply chain management, medical advices have been carried out through online services. The employees of the company were allowed to work from home through software's. Overnight many organizations developed online platforms and provided the support systems to their employees in order to work effectively from their residence. Most of the service organizations especially financial services, insurance services and many other advisory services including education services have largely adopted online work which has effectively helped the employees as well as organizations. Even after covid pandemic some of the organizations still preferred especially IT sector industries prefer wfh an effective concept. The reason behind it is, the workers can enjoy family and work together and most convenient in terms of quality food at home and rest posses as and when required, from company's point of view it is cost effective and quick disbursement of job. Therefore the wfh concept has largely gained an attention from most of organizations even in India. In order to understand the real philosophy of effectiveness of wfh in Indian context research has been conducted in India