The ‘Work from Home’ concept is a breakthrough in the traditional characteristics of work. Maintaining the productivity levels as well as ensuring safety is the ‘Work from home’ model. WFH have a widespread impact on family relationships:
Positive Impact:
- Time saved in commuting can be spent qualitatively with family. More over work can be scheduled accordingly.
- WFH improved family relationships through proper adaptive processes, and the relations were moderated by the education level and age of individuals.
- Increased work expectations and distractions, reduced communications with family and ultimately impacts the mental and physical health.
- Blurred work-life boundaries can make it difficult to detach mentally from work which can increase stress and anxiety.
- More time to children reduces the friction between child and father.
Negative Impact:
- Domestic violence – The WHO report showed a general trend of increase in sexual violence and intimate partner violence rates whenever there was an occurrence of disaster – shadow pandemic.
- Salary cut in some organization has made depressing environment at home, resulting into loss of emotional intelligence.
- Work load on women member have increased, which made her more irritating and frustrating.
Communication and boundaries aren’t just meant for remote employees – these precedents set up a model for how relationships work in the future, and shape how they become in coming years.