Volume : III, Issue : VII, July - 2014

A Study on Telecommuting as a Coping Strategy for Work–Family Conflict

K. Hari Priya, Dr. N Brindha

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This study focusses on finding whether telecommuting would help employees to cope up with work life conflict. Telecommuting policy is gaining importance nowadays. The study is conducted among IT professionalsworking in Bangalore. Firstly, the study, through secondary research confines the attributes of telecommuting and work family conflict. The second step of the study is a survey administering a questionnaire. The employees’ opinion on the benefits of telecommuting is analyzed in finding whether telecommuting is the coping strategy. Telecommuting is infamous due to the practical difficulties and challenges in implementing the policy in India. There are good number of benefits for both the employer and employee in adapting telecommuting policy and keeping this in mind, telecommuting increases scope for better performance, higher productivity, reduction in overhead, improved employee retention and attraction, better work-life balance for the employee’s, etc. This paper analyzes the policy of telecommuting with reference to work-family conflict of employees.

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K. Hari Priya A Study on Telecommuting as a Coping Strategy for Work –Family Conflict International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 3, Issue : 7 July 2014

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