Work from home:Benefits and Pitfalls among software employees

Abstract

Introduction: Work from home is referred to as employees need not go to corporate companies, but instead perform their work at home using an internet connection, by satellite connection. The employees are happier working from home than in the office. Benefits of working from home is the employees can spend time with family, releasing travelling stress. Therefore, the aim of this study is to find work from home : benefits and pitfalls among the software employees Materials and methods: In this study sample size was 100 software employees between the age group of 20-50 years from software companies in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The questionnaire comprising 21 questions were created in google forms and sent to 100 software employees through whats app. And the data is collected and analysed by spss version 23. Descriptive statistics was expressed by means of number and frequency and percentage and the chi square test was used to find out associated between variables. Levels of statistical significance will be P<0.05 Results: Out of the total 101 responses, 67% were males and 33% were females. 40.59% males said yes that their home is office silent and 26.73% said no. And females said 11.88% said yes that their home is office silent and 20.79%said no. 17.82% female said work from home time saving 2.97% said it is stressful. 0.99% males said time saving and 3.96% said stressful Conclusion: Based on the results of the present study, it can be concluded that work from home is found to be beneficial among the study participants.