Hybrid Working Mode: Present Scenario, Challenges and Economic Advantages
Hybrid Working Mode: Present Scenario, Challenges and Economic Advantages

Summary/Abstract: Purpose: Technology driven economy poses challenges and opportunities to human capital. The outbreak of COVID 19, brought a wave for flexible working. By harnessing modern technology, organizations across the globe adopted hybrid working model as a viable alternative. Hybrid work gives the employees and employers a bondage of conciliation on their requirements. This model provides advantages to the economy, the employees and the employers alike, and at same time bears certain disadvantages too. This study adopted a descriptive and quantitative research design by collecting primary data through a structured questionnaire administered to 50 IT employees at Infopark, Kochi, Kerala, India. Data was analyzed by using SPSS software. Frequency analysis, cross-tabulation, the Kruskal-Wallis test, and the Mann-Whitney U test were employed in this study. The findings reveal that a majority of respondents prefer hybrid working mode due to flexibility and work-life balance benefits. The study established that age has a significant impact on the challenges faced by employees in hybrid work (p = 0.043), and that gender differences in challenges are also statistically significant (p = 0.042), with female employees reporting greater difficulties. However, no significant difference was found in challenges across different working styles (p = 0.415), suggesting that employees encounter difficulties regardless of their mode of work. This study will have significant implications for researchers, organizations and policy makers.

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