2. Work from home
• Due to advancement in technology now a
person is able to work from home without
going to office on daily basis.
• Let us discuss the benefits and challenges
faced by the workers and as well as the
employers.
3. Benefits Of Working From Home
• The most important benefit is flexible in working hours.
It helps in managing the personal work as well as
official work.
• For peoples working in metro cities most of the time
gets wasted in travelling. So travelling time and cost is
reduced.
• It is most beneficial for women employees especially
one who is having kids, most of the women employees
quit their job to take care of their kids. They can easily
take care of their children and concentrate on their
work.
4.
5. Challenges While Working From
Home
While there are some benefits obviously there will also be
more challenges in working from home.
– It is very difficult to build a good rapport with the team
members when they are working in a team
– One can easily be distracted. Because not all peoples have an
office set up at house.
– There is no one to supervise and direct an employee.
– It feels like socially isolated.
– Major challenge faced by employees are network failure or
power failure. Without network or power back up the process in
works gets lagged. There is a chance of communication failure
with the team members. It affects the works when instant
results are needed.
6. How Do Companies Benefit From
Working From Home
Without benefits no company allow their employees to work
from home. Let us see some of the important benefits a
company gets from work from home
– Maintenance cost is reduced.
– There is no need to spent on Transport and Water for the
employees.
– Internet charges, EB charges and phone charges are reduced.
– Company can hire a person who is far away and not able to
attend office daily if the person has vast knowledge on their
needs. If the employees are spread all over the country they are
able to work in more time zones and complete the work
effectively and efficiently.
7. Why Employees Should Not Work
From Home
• Even though there are many benefits some
companies doesn’t allow their employees to
work from home because of the following
reasons:
• Some confidential data’s should not be shared
with other persons . Security and trust is the
main issue because the employee is using the
laptops and company data’s at home.
8.
9. Are People Who Work From Home
More Productive
• We can say there is a 50-50 chance regarding
productivity. It depends on the nature of the person
and the higher officials they are reporting with.
• Some person take it as easy going and concentrate on
their personal work and keep their official work as
secondary. It results in lack of productivity and hence
the efficiency of the work also decreases.
• On the other hand there are some peoples who is
more productive and engage more time in building
their career irrespective of the place they are working.
10. How Do One Overcome Challenges
Working From Home
• To overcome all the challenges the person
must be able to work without any
disturbance.
• They must be able to work in free space with
less noise and easy access to network.
• They can maintain to do list and fix time for
their personal work and office work
separately.
11. Conclusion
• Hence we can conclude that at current scenario (due to
COVID-19) most of the employees got an opportunity
to work from home and many companies are
encouraging it too.
• Work from process becomes success depending on the
rules followed by the company such as an employee
must log in at time and they must report the work they
have done at periodic intervals on daily basis.
• They must communicate with their higher officials and
team members to complete the work given to them at
time.