Work Life Balance in the time of Work f rom Home (WFH) – Evidence from Women Employees working in IT Companies in Coimbatore City, Tamil Nadu, India

COVID-19 pandemic induced restrictions and the necessity of adhering to COVID appropriate behaviors accelerate the Work From Home (WFH) trend in many sectors. The Indian IT sector is one such a sector wherein WFH is widely adopted. This research analyses whether WFH has any impact on Work Life Balance (WLB) of women employees working in Indian IT companies. This research is also interested to know the impact of factors like Work Interference with Personal Life (WIPL), Personal Life Interference with Work (PLIW), Job controls and Job demands on WLB. 191 women employees working in IT companies in Coimbatore city, Tamil Nadu, India were participated in this research. This research will help the IT companies to understand the factors that affect WLB of women employees. Hence, the researcher hopes that key insights that are found out of this research will help these companies to take many corrective steps to improve WLB of their women employees.