A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF WORK FROM HOME V/S WORK FROM OFFICE: PREFERENCE OF WOMEN EMPLOYEES IN IT INDUSTRY

Abstract

This study examines the perception of IT employees in Bangalore towards Work From Home (WFH) and Work From Office (WFO) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study is descriptive and empirical in nature and a survey method was adopted to collect the data. The questionnaire was self-prepared based on literature and comprised of questions on demographic information of the respondents, current work scenario in the pandemic, challenges at workplace, challenges of work from home and the respondent preference of WFH versus WFO. Through this study, the author intends to identify the mean scores for employee preference towards WFH and WFO and to identify the main advantages and drawbacks of work from home and work from the office. Cronbach alpha was used to measure the reliability of the self-developed questionnaire. Some of the statistical tests carried out in the study were correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis.