Impact of Learn from Home and Work from Home on Work-Life Balance during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perceptions of MBA Students from a Leading State University in Sri Lanka

Abstract

The COVID-19 Pandemic instantaneously turned the companies to run their operational activities in Work from Home (WFH) and the learning activities to implement through an online platform of Learn from Home (LFH). This has converted a significant impact on working students' Work Life Balance (WLB). This study investigates the WLB of the working MBA students during the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of WFH and LFH: quantitative and cross-sectional. WFH and LFH are considered independent, while WLB is considered the dependent variable. Primary data was collected from MBA students at a leading state university in Sri Lanka to measure WFH, LFH and WLB. A simple random sampling technique was applied to select the sample, and the final sample consisted of 169 MBA students. Data were analyzed using correlation and regression with Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) The results showed that WFH and LFH positively and significantly affect the Work-Life Balance. The statistical result of the study further reveals that most of the students/employees want to practice learning and work from home as a hybrid model during the post-pandemic