The Future Of Workplace Post Covid-19: Challenges To HR Practices For The Implementation Of Ethical Hybrid Workplace – A Study On Indian IT Companies

Abstract

The workplace has been transformed over a period of time due to the pandemic situation with working from office then virtual work to hybrid workplace. Hybrid workplace is implemented by organizations for providing a flexibility of work from office and home but facing challenges to adapt this new way of future workplace. This study focuses on the research of influencing factors and to develop a hybrid workplace model in post-pandemic using the time series data. This research has identified Moonlighting, Work Engagement, and Work-Life Balance as parallel mediation factors and Employee Satisfaction as serial mediation factor for the investigation of Employee Performance with independent factors as Hybrid Workplace and Work Ethics. The responses collected through survey questionnaire was analysed using statistical tools by applying the research methods of multi-level time series analysis. The findings explain that the Work Engagement and Work-Life Balance are to be evaluated by organizations at regular intervals of time. Moonlighting has a significant mediating effect between Hybrid Workplace and Employee Performance that does not vary with time period. This study contributes to Social Exchange Theory with the inclusion of new factors influencing work environment. Organizations can benefit from the findings to implement future of workplace.