Online Work from Home: Issues and Challenges

Abstract

Work from home has become a new normal because of COVID pandemic in the business world. However, as the world is recovering from the pandemic through normalizing the business activities, it has posed a tough challenge for existing staff. Keeping a work life balance is an important aspect for the business organizations. The case firm is Oman Arab Bank (OAB), and the research work will emphasize on the issues and challenges of online work from home. Due to technological innovations, work from home allowed flexibility and personalization to the existing staff. The recent pandemic has highlighted the benefits and challenges of working from home. The research paper will use convenient sampling by targeting OAB employees from head office for their working from home. The purpose of this study is to investigate how OAB employees collaborate online work from home (WFH) during pandemic. Shift of working culture will be analyzed based on employee satisfaction levels. Secondary data will be analyzed based on critical literature review of WFH and its issues and challenges faced by employees.

The Benefits of Employing Global Virtual Teams in International Business

“…Moreover, virtual work enhances employee job satisfaction because it provides workers with more freedom (Schuster, 2022;Youssef et al, 2022). In addition, according to Al Uwaisi & Devi (2022), virtual employment has a good effect on people on both a personal and professional level, where people may work from home during business hours with less commuting and greater control over their schedule. Additionally, it increases the employee's liberty and is thought to lessen office-related distractions when working from home.…”

“…As a result of the Covid-19 crisis in 2020, considerable numbers of businesses all across the world started requesting that their workers work remotely, which sharply increased the number of virtual teams (Mysirlaki & Paraskeva, 2020;Bartsch et al, 2020;Turesky et al, 2020;Zeuge et al, 2020;Zuofa & Ochieng, 2021;Newman & Ford, 2021;Abarca et al, 2020). Al Uwaisi and Devi (2022) argue that the COVID-19 epidemic has driven businesses to adopt a work-from-home culture swiftly. The research problem lies in the contradiction between the increasing importance of employing global virtual teams in international business, and the lack of studies dealing with the benefits of these teams.…”