Navigating The New Normal: The Impact Of The COVID-19 Pandemic On Work-From-Home Dynamics And Career Progression In The IT Sector

Abstract

The COVID-19 drastically changed the social system and working patterns throughout the world, especially in the IT sector. COVID-19 was the first situation when the whole workforce switched to the telecommuting for an extended length of time. During the COVID-19 situation, it’s been observed that working women are facing more challenges while performing WFH in both mental and physical ways by handling multiple tasks at a time. Managing a better work-life balance was an actual stress in between all the household chores and social responsibilities and their professional career was in high risk. This paper provided an insight to identify the significant factors of working from home that influence the career progression of workforce in the IT sector and to know the impact of these factors on their professional paths. This quantitative study will be built upon primary data collected by the IT employees. In the data collection process we have applied purposive sampling of around 320 employees of IT sector. Further Factor analysis combined with regression and correlation analysis will be used to evaluate the collected data. As result of study found that IT employees are most significantly impacted by the organisational factor, individual factor and work productivity factor during WFH.