The Covid -19 Impact of Higher Education Institutions: Role of Faculty to Work from Home-An Empirical Study

Abstract

The current study was intended to evaluate the COVID -19 Impact of Higher Education Institutions: Role of Faculty to Work from Home-an Empirical Study in Chennai city. Data were processed and analyzed by the Statistical Package for social science. And simple percentage, chi-square test was used to investigate the level of association among variables at the significance level of p<0.05.In this paper, presents a brief overview of the Faculty adopts work from home during COVID-19, Advantages of Work from Home, Disadvantages of Work from Home, and Online Learning in higher education institution of Chennai city, India. Total numbers of the respondents are 452, majority of the respondents in the study, 38.05% of the respondents are male and 52.21% of the respondents are female. 47.79% of the respondents are doing work from home. 42.70% of the respondents are having dedicated workspace. 39.16% of the respondents are not having equipment to do work from home.41.81% of the respondents are not providing flexible timer to do work from home.  COVID-19 crisis may affect all over the world, this unpredictable situation facing various challenges. Then current transformation of higher education teaching and learning activities is step forward to digitalize. This study presents a COVID -19 impacts on higher education institutions in India and works from home faculty members. To the best of the author's knowledge, explain the Advantages of Work from Home, Disadvantages of Work from Home and Online Learning in higher education institutions of Chennai city, India.