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ABSTRACT
With global Pandemic Covid 19, many production organisations today are facing a new challenge of keeping the business afloat. With the recent government guidelines as well failing demand, many of the small as well as medium production units have temporarily shut down their factories but then there are production units which have seen a significant increase in demand for essential supplies. The front line production workers in the production unit cannot carry their work to the relative safety of their homes. So the critical focus for every such organisation is to keep their workforces specially the front line production workers safe. But for the other sub - divisions the organisations in order to minimise the risk have allowed remote working facilities for their workforces.
With this, attempt had been made to understand the perception of workforce's particularly working in production unit about the factors that will influence the different aspects of work from home.A questionnaire containing different factors affecting the work from home perception of the workforces is designed and distributed. Data is collected from 71 white collar respondents (Male 63 and 8 Female workforces). Analysing the data, it was found that professional isolation, perceived job performance with virtual work; independent working and perceived organisational support are the major factors that contribute to the perceptions of work from home workforces.
Keywords: Post - Pandemic, Work from Home, Production Organisation and Business Inferences.
Introduction
Among the notable metamorphosis which came as inference of the Covid19 Pandemic has been the transition of many office workers across professions to work from home setups. Individuals from some occupational classes who had little background of working from home were switched to such arrangements (teachers, production staffs, sales). While workforces who never had worked from home were pushed to such setups. The transition wasn't that easy. For some it was easier to shift and for another group they witnessed an aggressive changeover.
In a developing economy like India, there are a huge number of people who work in the production Sector (according to data from corporate government sectors).In these sectors earlier remote working was an absurd concept. For companies in the production sector, the big challenge is psychological rather than operational. Command and control isn't just a by word...