本論文探討印度員工在新冠肺炎（COVID-19）疫情流行期間如何看待突然轉變為居家辦公之型態。與此同時，作者亦調查工作與生活平衡對個人後疫情時代生活之作用。最後，本文將研究疫情時在家工作如何影響員工之工作效率。本文以質性研究方法對採訪前已在家工作一個月以上的員工進行四次半結構化訪談。研究結果表明，在家工作對維持個人工作與生活平衡有負面影響；儘管如此，其工作效率並未受到任何顯著影響。

This study looks into how workers perceived a quick switch to work from home during the COVID pandemic in India. This would also investigate the role that work-life balance plays in an individual's life following the pandemic. Last but not least, this research project will consider how work from home during a pandemic may affect workers' productivity outcomes at work. The research methodology for this study was the qualitative technique, which involved the engagement of four semi-structured interviews with workers who had been working from home for more than a month prior to the interview. The outcome of this research shows that working from home did have a negative impact in maintaining the work life balance of an individual but there was no significant impact seen in their productivity.

Table of Contents
Thesis Validation Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
摘要 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv
Chapter 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 Research Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Research Outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Chapter 2 Literature Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1 The Benefits/Advantages of working from home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.2 The drawbacks of working from home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.3 Work from home during Covid 19 in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.4 Work life balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.5 Conclusion of The Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 3 Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.1 Research Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.2 Participants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Chapter 4 Result and Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.1 Working from home in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.2 Work-life balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.3 Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 5 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.1 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.2 Theoretical and managerial implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.3 Limitations and future research. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Table of Tables
Table 3-1 Information of Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

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