Abstract
The covid-19 pandemic has impacted every aspect of human life. Many employees start work from home during this pandemic situation, which disturbs employees' everyday work and non-work schedules as it is an unusual practice for some employees. However, there are limited studies which examine the effect of work from home on work-life balance. Based upon work life border theory and crossover spillover theories, the current study attempted to examine the effect of work from home on work-life balance and to examine the moderating role of gender. Using a structured questionnaire, data were collected from 301 employees who started work from home during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study is cross-section nature, as data collection was limited to one point in time. Based upon the extant literature, we developed two hypotheses which proposed the direct effect of work from home on work life balance and the moderating effect of gender on the proposed relationship. The data were analyzed using regression. The results showed that work from home significantly and negatively influence on work-life balance. However, moderating effect of gender was insignificant. Thus, work from home negatively influence on employee work life balance irrespective of their gender. The results of this study inform the literature employees face difficulties of managing their work and non-work life when the there is no clear boarders between work and non-work.
Highlights
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in how employees manage their family life while engagingi in work
4.1 Hypotheses Testing In hypothesis 1, we propose that there is a significant impact of work from home on work-life balance
The study's main objective was to examine the impact of work from Home on Work-Life Balance and moderating effect of gender among workers
Summary
There has been an increasing interest in how employees manage their family life while engagingi in work. Work-life balance determines how an employee shares the available time and the effort between family responsibilities and work requirements. Hawkins, Ferris, and Weitzman (2001) refer to work-life balance as the extent to which an employee can simultaneously balance temporal, emotional, and behavioral demands of both paid work and family responsibilities There have been observations that the degree of imbalance between family life and work has increased gradually in recent years because the work and family roles have become increasingly intertwined, and the balance between work and life is marked as the struggle facing by the employees on a daily basis in all over the world (Karkoulian, Srour & Sinan, 2016).
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