THE EFFECT OF WORKING FROM HOME DURING COVID-19

 

THE
EFFECT OF WORKING FROM HOME DURING COVID-19


  Figure 1 (Gajendran and Harrison, 2007)

Working from home means employees are working from their own house or their place of living without working from the physical environment of the office. Due to the pandemic effect (COVID-19), most companies changed their working policies to allow employees to work from their own place full time or at a convenient time for them (Gajendran and Harrison, 2007).


WORK FROM HOME FRAME WORK

Organizational, individual, and family factors on WFH and how they relate to work and family outcomes.

1. Organizational factors

Ø Cost facilities related to work

Ø Training in the use of technology

Ø  Organizational communication

Ø   Employee well being

Ø   IT support

2. Individual and family factors

Ø  Self-discipline

Ø  Self-motivation

Ø  Ability to work independently

Ø  Time management

Ø  Size of the living area

Ø  Number of family members sharing the same area

Ø  Number and age of the children

Ø  Individual working space

3. Work domain

Ø  Productivity

Ø  Job satisfaction

Ø  Flexibility

Ø  Work engagement

4. Life domain

Ø  Work life balance

Ø  Life satisfaction

Ø  Family satisfaction

 

CHALLENGES AND OVERCOMES

1. Collaboration and communication- regular meetings e.g.: -Zoom, Slack & Microsoft team

2. Loneliness –plan social activities, video calls with friends, working in a co-working space

3. finding reliable Wi-Fi- organization provide the cost for fastest network

4. Time management- stick to conventional working hours

5. Taking vacation time- provide enough breaks and well rest


TOOLS FOR WORK FROM HOME

v Noise cancelling head phones

v Monday.com-keep all your work in one place

v Trello- project management tool

v Slack-messaging tool

v Zoom-video conferencing

v GoToMeeting-advanced tool, more security

v Toggle-time management

BENEFITS OF WORKING FROM HOME

§  Flexible time schedule

§  Spend more time with family

§  Work from any location

§  Less stress

§  Reduced carbon footprint

 SWOT ANALYSIS

SWOT analysis for work from Home during COVID-19 

STRENGTH

*No office distractions

*Flexible arrangements

*Money savings

*Work life balance

*Time saving

*Reducing COVID-19 impact

WEAKNESS

*Distractions

*Communication Barriers

*Lack of supervisors

*Injustice

*Missing social Interactions

 

OPPORTUNITIES

*Hybrid models

*New talents from around the world

THREATS

*High competition

*No policies and regulations

*Privacy

*Cyber security
Figure 2 (Vyas, and Butakhieo, 2021)

CONCLUSION

According to the SWOT analysis, working from home during COVID-19 provides benefits and drawbacks to the organization.


REFERENCES

Gajendran, R. S., and D. A. Harrison. 2007. “The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown About Telecommuting: Meta-Analysis of Psychological Mediators and Individual Consequences.” The Journal of Applied Psychology 92 (6): 1524–1541.

Grant, C. A., L. M. Wallace, P. C. Spurgeon, C. Tramontano, and M. Charalampous. 2019. “Construction and Initial Validation of the e-Work Life Scale to Measure Remote e-Working.” Employee Relations 41 (1): 16–33.

Vyas, L. and Butakhieo, N., 2021. The impact of working from home during COVID-19 on work and life domains: an exploratory study on Hong Kong. Policy Design and Practice, 4(1), pp.59-76.

Comments

  1. HareenthNovember 16, 2021 at 10:55 PM

    Definitely. Its a double edged sword. Either ways. More than anything we should trust in each an another. We can cut off some expenses, but in the other hand we got to spend it on another.

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    1. PrabathNovember 17, 2021 at 1:19 AM

      Yes also we must know to life balancing with stay home and working its good practice and experience for all

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  2. M D S PereraNovember 16, 2021 at 11:06 PM

    A very good blog post and you have expressed the criticality and the required need for a good performance review system at the same time.

    Thanks for sharing pubudu

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  3. Pubudu KulathilakeNovember 16, 2021 at 11:10 PM

    Very correct on its context. But there are also adverse impacts on working from home and difficulties of operating with distruptions at home.. i hope companies and individuals should also develop ways to address these issues with taylor made solutions

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  4. Sanjaya BandaranayakeNovember 17, 2021 at 4:06 AM

    Working from home quite popular among employees. Employers point of view some see this as positive but some of them see as a negative. Because still we don't have a system to monitor or access the progress and the productivity. Such systems should develop for better results.

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  5. Buddhika JayarathnaNovember 17, 2021 at 7:08 AM

    challenge to pandemic many organization success with work from home company & worker both during pandemic situation also reach the goal ,good subject here highlighted thanks to share

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  6. Nuwansiri RathnayakeNovember 17, 2021 at 11:19 PM

    With the covid-19 pandemic, most of the organizations has faced a lot of challenges. one of key part is Work from home. As we can see it's complicated specially with manufacturing sector. For the individuals and service providers really useful and profitable. You have given good explanation with each point which is really are useful. Really good article!

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  7. Lakshmi BandaraNovember 18, 2021 at 6:54 AM

    Remote work process is in vast adaption which encourages the workforce involvement in their relevant job role without any interruption. This has been continuing even in countries like ours by now with pros and cons. Interesting article. Thank you for sharing.

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  8. Eranda KumaraNovember 19, 2021 at 1:05 AM

    This is very detailed. You have mentioned all the factors and advantage/disadvantage as well. Due to this pandemic most of managerial levels are experienced WFH. good article.

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  9. Imashi DayaratnaNovember 29, 2021 at 8:16 PM

    There are some bad effects like, dealing with some type of mental health issues. This is due to fear on their physical health, their childcare responsibilities, Work load, experiencing greater levels of isolation.

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  10. Asitha DNovember 30, 2021 at 1:55 AM

    It has clearly explained about working from home and the individual factors, organizational factors and family factors that are affecting on the success of working from home have been explained effectively. It has explained about the benefits of working from home and the SWOT analysis that has conducted on working from home has been supportive to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats associated with working from home.

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  11. Sandya December 13, 2021 at 8:23 AM

    In this pandemic situation work from home has become really important. In this concept advantages and disadvantages too. You have shared important points regarding to this topic. Well-done

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