Advantages And Disadvantages Of Working From Home

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WORK FROM HOME- A SUCCESS OR FAILURE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRY LIKE INDIA

INTRODUCTION

A rising number of employees now- a- days want to work from home but there are some issues which lead to ‘shirking from home. The use of term ‘informal employment’ is not recent as it dates back to 1970s; however a clear definition of work from home is more recent.

In south Asia the concept of WFH evolved from home based craft production. Employees or workers especially females find it easy to work from home by combining care and responsibilities with less pressure on family and community norms. Working from home not only increases the productivity of employees which in turn increases

NEGATIVE IMPACTS OR DISADVANTAGES OF WORK FROM HOME

We cannot always say that work from home is advantageous. Every coin has two sides similarly work from home also has its limitations due to the following:

 It is not suitable for all types of companies: Work from home is mostly suitable for jobs like call centers, where administrative work is involved, which involve home made products, software companies, banks, technology firms etc. On the other hand it is not suitable for enterprises where public dealings are involved, where proper set up is required which cannot be provided at home.

 Teamwork cannot be promoted: By working individually at home, employees find it very difficult to cooperate with each other to complete a project as a team.

 Less Family time: When employees work in offices, they work for fixed hours (say from 9am to 5pm) but if they work from home they generally work for more minutes per hour which means less time to be spent with

Microsoft also reimburses them telephone and broadband cost but not pay any pay any extra salary for working at home

2. IBM (India): In IBM nearly 40% employees work from home. The employees in IBM said that they have received Rs 15000 extra for working at home may be because companies has saved infrastructure and other related costs.

3. Flexi career (Chennai): As per this company, when companies take work from home as a means of work-life balance not as a means to attain business goals, then they start facing problems.

4. CISCO: Cisco advise its employees working from home to attend quarterly meetings to ensure cooperation between employees , Managers because employees work in isolation due to which they do not have external stimulus which is a critical factor to achieve business goals. Cisco has earned $277 million as savings through work from home. Nearly 85% employees of Cisco work from home.

5. Tata communications: Since a large part of our working population consist of young generations and women now also becoming part of working population, Tata communications devise new ways to provide them creative freedom and assumed responsibility. They allow their employees to work from home provided that this should be accompanied by proper training to employees and managers. Further employees should be engaged while devising such policies and modify it