Impact of employee work-life balance on performance of software employees’ during COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

During the emergency situation all over the globe due to Corona Virus (COVID-19) pandemic it was difficult for everyone to cope up with specially the labor class. The emerging challenge for today’s employees is to find the right balance of the work and the family as most of the people especially in cities are failing to balance between work life and family life due to demand in changing work pattern, competition, unemployment etc. Hence software companies are implementing work life balance practices such as flexi work schedules, compressed work week, work from home, self directed teams etc to comfort the employee on job and ensure good employee performance leading to good organizational performance. The present study focus on impact of work life balance on performance of software employees of Karnataka, a sample of 200 employees have been chosen randomly for the study. The online survey using a structured questionnaire has been conducted to collect the required data from the respondents. A pilot study was made before finalizing the questionnaire and made the required changes to the questionnaire. The aim of the study is to analyze the work flexibility and family life of software employees, the study also made an attempt to analyze the opinion and satisfaction level of employees working in software industries during COVID-19 pandemic.