Remote Work Culture:Physical and Mental Well-being of IT Workers

Abstract

The emerging IT work culture for remote working is popularly accepted during the COVID19 pandemic and many organizations have accepted transformation to work from home culture as a future work strategy. The new culture is widely implemented due to work flexibility, time-saving, and talent acquisition benefits. Remote working is accepted by both organizations and employees for security from virus spread during the pandemic. The research is purposed to study the impact of remote working on IT workers’ health. IT workers dealing with the latest technologies prioritized work from home during a pandemic. The aim of the research is to study the impact of work from home culture on their mental health and physical wellbeing by studying the challenges of a new way of working. It is important for implementing future work policies in terms of positive and negative shades of remote work as well as the gender bias impact of new work practices. The researcher studied symptoms of mental and physical impacts on remote IT workers and discussed their reasons. The paper aimed to put health issues faced by the workers while working from home to improve working strategies for their well-being.