LBEF RESEARCH JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Author(s):Pala Kansakar, Er Ajay Kumar Sharma

Abstract:The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly accelerated the adoption of remote work globally, including in Nepal. The demand for new trend on work from home started after the surge of pandemic. This research outlines the related technical challenges faced by software companies in context to Kathmandu, particularly within the IT sector. The paper emphasizes on different challenges faced by Software companies in context to Kathmandu and the research further initiates to provide possible solutions and guidelines that could be implemented in Software Companies to overcome the possible future issues while adopting work from home. In context to Kathmandu, work from home was a new concept hence the focus of the research revolves around different factors such as infrastructure, network issues and IT and training awareness that impacts adoption of technology while working from home. The survey was conducted among 388 respondents who are IT professionals from IT companies located within Kathmandu valley. The findings indicates that though Work From Home (WFH) culture was a new concept during COVID-19 pandemic for software companies in Nepal, it has been widely gaining popularity. The regression analysis was performed which shows that infrastructure, network issues and IT and training awareness has a positive relation with the ease of adoption of technology. However on the basis of statistical analysis, there is not much concern on availability of the logistics to the employees but there are still some concern on network reliability due to low bandwidth internet services provided by Internet Service Providers. Further the result shows that IT and trainings awareness, programs are being conducted by software companies on regular basis which has helped them better understand the policy and tools and has been able to experience ease in transition to work from home.

Keywords – Work from home (WFH), COVID-19, Software Companies