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The COVID-19 outbreak has pressured countries around the world to implement various restrictions to people’s movement and instituted social distancing protocols as part of pandemic control measures. The COVID-19 pandemic has constrained companies to reshape their work culture. The current COVID-19 pandemic is the new normal of working from home (WFH), and its effects are not the same across all workplaces. The recent pandemic brought into focus the merits and challenges of working from home on a level of personal experience and employees are adapting to new work culture. Quarantines, lockdowns, and self-imposed isolation have pushed majority employers around the world to work from home, accelerating a workplace experiment that had struggled to gain traction before COVID-19 hit (susan Lund, 2021). With the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, home working has given some employers the flexibility they need to continue their business operations while prioritizing staff and customer health and wellbeing as part of their public health responsibility. With increasing numbers of employees working at home or using home as a working base for at least part of the week - it's clear there are a number of benefits for business such as, Flexibility and agility, Improved employee retention, Attract new talent, Increased productivity, Increased staff motivation, Less need for regular holidays, Less sickness absences, life balance, Convenience, Financial benefits. Though there are some disadvantages to employees working at home, most of these relate to those working from home for all, as opposed to part, of their working week such as Staff feeling isolated, Problems with staff development, Information security risk, not all jobs suit home working, doesn't suit everyone. In this manner, the relationship between employer and employee becomes a circle of give and take that benefits everyone involved.
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In-Text Citation: (Hassan & Raj, 2021)
To Cite this Article: Hassan, A. F., & Raj, V. (2021). Working from Home during COVID-19: Challenges and Solution for Maldives Employees. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 11(9), 1622–1633.
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