Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources in Pakistan: A Case Study of the Indus River Basin

Abstract

This quantitative study investigates the impact of work-from-home (WFH) arrangements on employee productivity in Pakistan, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. A self-designed structured questionnaire was filled by 500 employees who belonged to different sectors such as IT, finance, healthcare, and education sectors. In particular, the work and family conflict, organisational commitment and employee engagement, perceived amount of technical resources at employees’ disposal were under investigation. Lack of workplace friction and reduced commuting: The survey shows that the general productivity has increased for most of the employees regarding working from home arrangements. Workers stated that, they obtained better concentration on their work and thus the productivity in the work place improved. But the study also had its fair share of factors that was also likely to affect those employed under remote work arrangement, such as communication difficulties, lack of interaction, and challenges in building relationships between the personnel of the organization. All these challenges call for good communication aids and establish fellowship among people working in different locations. This article therefore finds that the overall enhancement of productivity can be enhanced by WFH as an option but any possible challenges to this should be managed effectively so as to optimise the many advantages that can come as a result of the change. These findings are beneficial to policies that mainly all those who want to develop sustainable remote work in Pakistan’s developing workplace.

Keywords: work-from-home, employee productivity, COVID-19, Pakistan, job satisfaction, work-life balance, technological support, quantitative study.