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ABSTRACT

In ancient times, work and personal life are considered as separate. But the present scenario, it has been interrelated with each other and considered to be the important criteria which decides the family well-being and work effectiveness. Now the pandemic situation COVID-19 leads the life of the employee with no differentiation between work and personal life. Usually, employees face difficult to balance their work-life. In India, following the working hours is typically rare and it is just in a notice board. Even after office time many employees are work with a laptop and office files. Their mind is completely baggage with a work-related task allotted to them. So, they cannot able to turn sight on their families. Even if they turn sight on them, it was not with affection and care instead of that they expose their frustration. This problem was continuing day by day even many technologies grown up, many policies were reframed, etc. Especially during COVID-19, companies decided to get the work from home. This paper tries to find the impact of work from home on work life balance of the employees during Covid 19.

Keywords: WFH, Work life Balance, Covid-19.

1.INTRODUCTION

In traditional way of working systems, there was no connections between work and personal life. But , in this competitive environment, it is obviously found that the work life and personal life are highly correlated to achieve the work place efficiency and family well-being. Unfortunately, the pandemic situation of COVID 19 strengthen the relationship of work and life and leads to the un differentiated work and personal environment. This COVID 19 made work from home as the only mean to run the organization. The word 'work from home'(WFH) is popular among the world which positively and negatively affects the personal and work life of the employee but the current situation questions the effectiveness of work from home, working hours, flexibility and also the work life balance. Work-Life balance is always a debatable topic even before the pandemic. The current pandemic makes the work life balance more questionable by the WFH policy. This paper tries to find the impact of work from home on work life balance of the employees during Covid - 19.

2. STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

Usually, employees...

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