Study of Psychological Stress Among Employees due to Work from Home during COVID-19 Lockdown in Indore City

When the world came under the coronavirus lockdown, millions of people started working remotely. This paper explores and studies in detail, various articles and research papers that highlight the stress of employees while working from home. Also this paper tries to study the stress of employees during COVID-19 pandemic. It is a study on the productivity of employees and the impact of working remotely on the stress level of employees. It is a discussion on the difficulties and challenges that an employee could face while adopting this mode of work. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that motivated an employee for working in this mode. Indore, the commercial and educational hub of Madhya Pradesh, is a Tier 2 city in India and the most densely populated major city in the central province. The greater metropolitan area of Indore makes it a city of about 3 million inhabitants. It is an industrial, cosmopolitan city, called as Mini-Mumbai and the population of Indore belongs to different parts of India. When the epidemic began in March 20, Indore turned into the coronavirus infection hotspot in Madhya Pradesh, and was under curfew for more than two months. Many people were grappled with reality of working from home for extended periods of time. This present study examines the impact of work from home culture during the stressful situation of COVID-19 pandemic on the employees based in Indore city. It also focuses on the performance, productivity and creativity of employees while working remotely. A sample of 173 employees has been taken. Data has been classified on the basis of gender, age, marital status, qualification and the dwelling area of employees. Furthermore, it also studies the factors acting as motivators and occupational stressors for the employees when they are a part of the work from home culture.