Online ISSN: 2515-8260

THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON WORK FORCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SECTOR

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Dr. P.K. Anjani1 , Dr. Suja Sundram2 , Ms. V. Abinaya3

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Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified and expanded in terms of its global reach, with huge impacts on public health and unprecedented shocks to economies and labor markets. Many countries have initiated social distancing policies, Lock downs to slow the virus‟s spread, with the aim of avoiding catastrophic outcomes for national health systems and minimizing lives lost. ILO estimates show that workplace closures have increased rapidly in recent weeks that 81 per cent of the global workforce lives in countries with mandatory or recommended closures. With increasing numbers of partial or total lockdowns in place that restrict operations of business and movement of the vast majority of workers, for many it has become impossible to work. Quantitative research methods were used for the study, and a sample population was chosen amongst participants who were single and in a relationship, female and male, with and without children, by using a convenient sampling method. The questionnaire used contained existing scales where the Cronbach‟s alpha coefficients were above the recommended 0.8. Out of 250 distributed questionnaires, 200 were completed and returned, giving an overall returning rate of 80%. The data was analyzed using IBM SPSS version 20. This study identified the factors influencing work force during COVID 19, the association between the demographic profile of employees and the factors influencing employees during COVID 19 and also their impact among the influencing factors. This study identified the existence of positive correlation between the work satisfaction and the psychological health, which indicates that when there is higher satisfaction in work which eventually leads to good psychological health. This study also identified that existence of positive correlation between the Family-work conflict and the psychological stress, which indicates that increase in conflict between the work and family eventually lead to unhappiness and psychological stress.

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