Impact of Work from Home During Covid-19 on the Socio-economic Status of India

ABSTRACT

Socioeconomic status (SES) is an instrument to measure the economic and social status of an individual or an economy concerning others. Though, Socioeconomic status is more commonly used to represent an economic difference in any society. Work from home is now a day (Covid-19) contributing to the nation for its socio-economic activities. This paper has examined the impact of ‘work from home' on the socio-economic status of India as so many people became unemployed, the income of the society decreased as well as the Education system was worse affected. The present situation of the pestilence provided great importance to work from home (WFH) for many employees to have the opportunity to both carries on working and safely from the risk of virus vulnerability. As this Pandemic period is uncertain, working from home is more acceptable as the new normal working way. On the contrary, to find the impact of WFH on socioeconomic status, we took three variables education, employment, and income & wealth. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.