Authors:

Rachna Gandhi, Hiraj Parmar

Abstract:

COVID-19 has brought untypical human and humanitarian challenges. The current health and economic critical situations due to coronavirus pandemic have changed many things in corporates. Firms have changed their working patterns to ensure mitigate the spread of the virus. This pandemic resulted in both employers and employees to adopt alternative work arrangements. Physical distancing measures forced all companies to change their current work practices. This situation influences wider adoption of practices like teleworking and work from home. Due to spread of COVID-19, work from home and teleworking have become new normal for employers and employees both. This new normal has also brought concept of virtual- teams into existence. Using different technologies teams have emerged with this trend. These working pattern changes is also playing vital role in work-life-balance for employees of all dynamics.  Employees have got the chance to spend quality time with family members due to lock-down and new work from home practices, especially female employees. The exploratory survey has been conducted on 30 employees of Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. to understand implications, issues and insights of new normal post outbreak of COVID-19. Also, it will suggest future work- trends post-pandemic based on contemporary trends.

Keywords:

COVID-19, Teleworking, Work from home, New normal, Virtual-teams, Contemporary trends post COVID.

Vol & Issue:

VOL.14, ISSUE No.Special Issue 1, january 2022