Impact on the Productivity of Remotely Working IT Professionals of Bangladesh during the Coronavirus Disease 2019
It addresses productivity challenges for IT professionals in Bangladesh during remote work, but is incremental as it applies existing survey methods to a new context.
This study surveyed IT professionals in Bangladesh to assess the impact of remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic on productivity, finding that resource and workspace issues and emotional well-being were most negatively affected.
Similar to the rest of the world, the recent pandemic situation has forced the IT professionals of Bangladesh to adopt remote work. The aim of this study is to find out whether remote work can be continued even after the lockdown is lifted. As work from home may change various productivity related aspects of the employees, i.e., team dynamics and company dynamics, it is necessary to understand the nature of the change during WFH. Conducting a survey, we asked the IT professionals of Bangladesh how they perceive their level of productivity during WFH and how the factors related to productivity have changed. We analyzed the change and identified the areas affected by WFH. We discovered that resource and workspace related issues, emotional well-being of the employees have been hampered the most during WFH. We believe that the findings from this study will help to decide how to resolve those issues and will help to understand whether WFH can be continued even after the lockdown is lifted.