Applicability of working from home concept to IT organizations in Sri Lanka

Abstract

The main objective of this thesis is to investigate the applicability of the working from home concept to IT organizations in Sri Lanka. Telework is a revolutionary working concept that has emerged with evolving technology. Working from home is the extreme end of telework. In this thesis the author has selected main variables which are interrelated with the working from home concept. Those are Individual, Home, Organizational, Functional and Technological. A Carefully formulated online questionnaire was distributed among the sample population to do the quantitative analysis. A hypothesis was formed for each variable. Individual and home variables ensure the applicability of working from home concept to IT organizations in Sri Lanka but contribution from other variables are not significant to analytics.