A STUDY ON WORK LIFE BALANCE OF WOMEN IT EMPLOYEES POST COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Work-life balance states that the level of prioritization between personal and professional activities of an individual. Work life balance encourages increased productivity, less instances of sickness and absenteeism, a happier, less stressed workforce, improvements in employee mental health and well-being and more engaged staff. The work life imbalance leads to mental disorders, such as anxiety and depression. Many studies have explored the impacts of work life balance but one or two covered COVID pandemic affected work scenario. After this mostly in IT industry work from home culture was introduced. This brings in a new change in the existing paradigm. At present this causes Job switch overs and resignations while people called on to work from office. In this context this study aims to measure the level of work life balance among IT women employees. For this purpose existing models were reviewed and analyzed to bring out an improved model. The review data of forty previous studies were analyzed and a hypothetical model is built as a result. In future the model is planned to be validated through real time data collection and analysis.