Opportunities and Challenges of Work from Home during Covid-19 Pandemic: A Study Using Systematic Literature Review

ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted almost all companies and people across all sectors. Working from home (WFH) has become the new norm in many countries and companies since the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a growing trend around the globe for having more people working from home, particularly in the current COVID-19 pandemic. The present review-based paper is mainly collected from important databases like Scopus and Web of Science from the years 2020, 2021, and 2022. The main aim of this paper is to understand the concept of Working from home and to study various Working from home (WFH) associated opportunities and challenges during the period of pandemic. Increased work productivity, increased job satisfaction, and greater flexibility were some of the opportunities whereas increased levels of stress, longer working hours, and lack of designated office space were foundsome challenges related to Working from home (WFH) during the pandemic. Despite many challenges and operational difficulties in WFH, many organizations are still positive and developing a new hybrid model which provides high employee productivity and also provides an effective way to deal with future uncertainties or pandemic-like crises.Mindfulness, proper designated office space at home, and Organisation based supportive policies were some of the main recommendations given for employees' better productivity and work-life balance. Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. All rights reserved.