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Research Article | Volume 4 Issue 2 (Mar-Apr, 2022)
‘Working from Home’ during COVID-19 Pandemic: Life of Employed Women in Colombo District, Sri Lanka
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Abstract

The study is conducted to explore, „how employed women have encountered work-life balance during the pandemic in Colombo District, Sri Lanka‟ by taking married and unmarried employed women as the sample. Qualitative approach has been used with judgemental sampling to conduct the study. Three married, employed women and three unmarried, employed women have been interviewed and analysed data thematically to present findings. The researchers has extracted four major themes, „Challenges faced by employed women during COVID-19 pandemic‟, „Distractions encountered by employed women‟, „Benefits of WFH‟, „Support of family members and company to the concept of working from home‟. The findings have been presented by contrasting on two groups of married and unmarried employed women. The concept „Working from home‟ has differently influenced married and unmarried women during COVID-19 pandemic. The efforts of the study is to understand the differences. The modern workplace should cater the changing needs of the environment. COVID-19 has created new realities which has become a root cause to new threats and opportunities. In this context, businesses should focus on catering the changing environment. Thu study supports the modern workplace by analysing COVID-19 influence on married and unmarried working women in Sri Lanka.

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