Author(s): Astha Dewan, Anand Seth
Covid-19 has introduced and accelerated the new developing work culture around the world as remote working practices or working from home that is observable mostly in service-based organizations, especially in IT companies and organizations providing IT-enabled services like Edtech firms, Survey companies, Consultancy firms, etc. Telework, E-working, virtual working telecommuting smart working, and home-based working are a few terms used interchangeably. These Organisations are looking for such types of arrangements due to cost-cutting and the demands of the job market at present time. The study tries to elaborate on the role of remote working practices on work-life balance and employees’ well-being to fulfil the objective of the study and conducting future-oriented research it includes the empirical papers on this issue between the time frame of 2002 to 2022 excluding the papers where the study was conducted on the covid 19 perspective. Focusing on PRISMA framework guidelines 2020. We qualitatively assessed 26 articles out of 517 papers found on Scopus. The findings of the study show that remote work is an independent variable in work-life balance and the well-being of employees but the direction of the relationship is not clear in past literature which means both positive effects as well as negative effects.