AN OVERVIEW OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF TELEWORKING

Abstract

With the COVID-19 epidemic turning the tables and bringing work into our homes, there has been an ongoing effort to reinvent HR methods. Social separation has produced a number of impediments to meeting and engaging. Teleworking had existed before COVID 19 but it has now become the new normal. The project study will be structured in the form of a document with five chapters. Primary research will be the final part to gain insights into preferences, habits, experiences, and the impact of teleworking before and during the COVID-19 pandemic on the employees. The study's first chapter focuses on the definition, history, and evolution of Teleworking before COVID-19. The second chapter describes the prevalence of teleworking before COVID-19. It also explains the perceptions of employees and organizations towards teleworking before the onset of COVID-19 The third chapter of the study shows the impact of mandatory work-from-home on employees' overall wellbeing and the immediate response by the HR department of organizations to the challenges faced because of full-time teleworking during COVID-19. The fourth chapter tries to peek into the future of teleworking and its place in the Hybrid working arrangement through both employees’ and managers’ perspectives. The fifth chapter entails the information collected by the primary research survey designed to gauge the impact of teleworking on the overall well-being of the employees “before and during the COVID-19 pandemic“. The primary “research also“ tries to peek into the employees’ perception about the future working arrangement and their expectations from the same. The report provides an overview of teleworking and its positive and negative impacts on the overall well-being of employees from both organization's and employees' perspectives before and during COVID-19 and its place in the future working arrangements.