Impact Of Long Term Work From Home On Work Culture & Employee Engagement: A Study Focused On Indian IT Companies

Authors

  • Gokul Santhanam, Dr. K. D. Balaji

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic situation has completely changed the way companies function. Information Technology companies were the first to respond to this crisis and enabled work from home for most of its employees. Having witnessed the productivity gains and cost savings, Organizations are planning to move towards long term remote working. The biggest challenge in this model would be sustaining the Organizational culture while working from home. Sustaining culture and making employee’s experience the culture in a remote working environment is critical. If employees working from home are not cemented into the company’s culture at an early stage, the sense of belonging would be lost which would in turn, make it practically impossible to keep employees motivated and focused on the job. This article aims to study the different Organizational cultures adopted by top Indian IT companies and provide recommendations on how to sustain culture and make the employee experience the same from a remote working environment. We spoke to several human resource managers to understand the challenges. Understanding these challenges is critical for Organizations, if they want to make the long-term work from home model a success. The recommendations provided, if implemented, will help the companies address some of these critical challenges. The challenges and recommendations are tailored to cover aspects of Organization culture prevalent in the top Indian IT companies and will also open avenues for future research on this topic

Published

2020-12-01

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