• Dr. Rashmi R. Hunnur
• Ms. Shriraksha Kulkarni

Telecommuting, also named as telework, remote work or work-from-home (WFM), has become increasingly popular in recent years. It promises flexible work schedules, greater autonomy and job satisfaction, and can be occasionally enforced when circumstance dictate such as during public health emergencies. In light of emerging WFH requirements due to the CVID-19 pandemic, several organizations published guidelines to minimize health & safety risk of workers along with the need to ensure business continuity. Covid-19 pandemic has imposed the sensitivity of 'Work from Home' (WFH) into an authoritatively instructed, firmly forced law. Nowadays, Work from Home theory remains evolving from all sectors, from Information Technological zones to training areas. WFH concept is new to majority of the employees, as the COVID 19 has forced almost all the employees of all the sectors to work from home for the first time. The objectives of the research aims to study the challenges faced by employees, to study the employee perception towards work from home based on gender perspective, and factors affecting the productivity of employees during work from home. The research is conducted using descriptive research methodology. For the study, data has been collected via structured questionnaire, with sample size of 100 respondents. The study concluded that working from home has an influence on productivity of the employees. While some of the factors of work from home practice have positive influences on the productivity, some other factors have negative influences. Moreover, there are some other factors, like characteristics and attitude of the employees, and the circumstances that also influences the productivity.

Covid-19 Pandemic, Work from Home, Productivity, Information technology

"Work From Home and Employee Productivity: Employees Perception of IT Sector- A Study on Gender Perspective.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 9, page no.b471-b484, September-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2209157.pdf

"Work From Home and Employee Productivity: Employees Perception of IT Sector- A Study on Gender Perspective.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 9, page no. ppb471-b484, September-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2209157.pdf