Work and Family Conflict Among Work from Home Employees during Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal No.3: Good Health and Wellbeing, ensures healthy lives through the promotion of well-being for all ages. Currently, the world is facing a global health crisis unlike any other due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Pandemic is escalating human suffering, destabilizing the global economy, and upending the lives of billions of people around the globe. Due to pandemic, work from home is the only option for most of the employees in the Education and IT sectors. Due to this unexpected change in their work and family life, conflicts arise and they struggle to balance their work and family life. In this context, this study has attempted to examine the experience of Work-Family Conflict and the Family-Work Conflict among employees who work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. An incidental sampling technique was utilized to collect the data using Google Form. Participants (N=223) responded to The Work and Family Conflict Scale (11 items), Wallach’s Organizational Culture Index (15 items), Multi-Dimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (12 items), scales. Results revealed that the work to family conflict factor had a negative relationship with social support and organizational culture as well as family to work conflict also had a negative association with the social support and organizational culture. organizational culture was positively related to social support. Regression analysis revealed that 28% of the variance in organizational culture and social support is influenced by work and family conflict. 31% of the demographic variables was influenced by work and family conflict.