Quality of Work-Life During Pandemic

This book is focused on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on different sectors, i.e., education, real estate, health, and agriculture. The lockdown has been announced to control the spread of COVID-19 infections, however people/industries/organizations were not ready for lockdown and it has greatly affected their growth. The front workers in the healthcare sector suffered a lot as major responsibilities they needed to carry on. The education sector is also hampered due to the pandemic as schools, colleges were closed and teaching, examinations were carried out on online platforms. These platforms were new to teachers as well as students. The real estate sector faced tremendous loss in this pandemic as people were scared and no one ready to invest their money in such an uncertain time. The agriculture filed is also suffered as raw materials required for agriculture were not available readily due to pandemic.

This book presents a survey that is conducted to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the quality of work-life in various sectors. The survey is focused majorly on four sectors, i.e. education, healthcare, real estate and agriculture. Data analysis is done based on responses of survey and mathematical modeling is provided for each case study.

Dr. Gitanjali R. Shinde has overall 13 years of experience, presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India. She has completed Ph.D. in Wireless Communication from CMI, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark on Research Problem Statement 'Cluster Framework for Internet of People, Things and Services' in 2018. She has obtained M.E. (Computer Engineering) degree from the University of Pune, Pune in 2012 and a B.E. (Computer Engineering) degree from the University of Pune, Pune in 2006. She has received research funding for the project 'Lightweight Group Authentication for IoT' by SPPU, Pune. She has presented a research article at World Wireless Research Forum (WWRF) meeting, Beijing China. She has published 50+ papers in National, International conferences and journals. She is the author of 5+ books with a publisher like Springer and CRC Taylor & Francis Group. She is also editor of books with De Gruyter and Springer. She is a reviewer of prominent journal IGI publications and IEEE Transactions.

Soumi Majumder completed her PGDM, specialization in Human Resource Management from   All India Management Association ( Institute of Business Management, Jadavpur University) in 2012. She did Diploma in Labour laws with Administrative laws (DLLAL) and Masters in Human Resource Management (MHRM) from Annamalai University, under Tamilnadu Govt in 2013 and 2019 respectively. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student of the Department of Business administration Dept. at Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal, India. She is associated with the School of Business- Sister Nivedita University, WB, India, Dept. of Business Administration, Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata. Previously, she was associated with Techno India College of Technology, NSHM College of Management and Technology, Dinabandhu Andrews Institute of Technology and Management, J D Birla Institute of Science and Commerce, Future Institute of Engineering and Management, West Bengal State Labor Institute, Siliguri, Department of Management Science, Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata, India, etc. She is having 6 years of experience in academia and 2 years of industrial experience. She has 20 research papers in national, international conferences and journals in the area of quality work-life, decent work-life, work-life balance, stress management, employee engagement, job satisfaction, leadership, training, and learning, etc. She has presented a research paper at  DSMLAI 2021 organized by India -Namibia Centre of Excellence in Information Technology, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia. Furthermore, she is a member of the All India Management Association, ACM, IS, NIPM etc.

Dr. H. R. Bhapkar was graduated from University of Pune, India. He received masters in Mathematics in 2000, and Ph.D. (Graph Theory) in 2016. He is working as Associate Professor in Mathematics at MIT Art, Design and Technology University's MIT School of Engineering, Pune. He has published 38 research papers in national and international journals and conferences, mostly in the areas of graph colouring, graph isomorphism, Mathematical Modelling and applications. He has developed his own academic credit system and defined a universal conversion formula to convert CGPA to an equivalent percentage. He has authored 141 books of Engineering Mathematics for different universities in India. He is the Research Guide in Mathematics at MIT Art, Design and Technology University, Loni Kalbhor, Pune. Additionally, he is the Board of Studies Member at MIT ADT University and Modern Arts, Commerce and Science College, Pune. His 21 years of teaching experience foster students on the path of successful personal growth and gratification. He is very keen to enhance the understanding level and problem-solving skills of students through his books and teaching. He motivates students to improve their concentration, innovative and design thinking, self-esteem and confidence to achieve desirable success.

Dr. Parikshit N. Mahalle obtained his B.E degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati, India and M.E. degree in Computer Engineering from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India. He completed his Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering specialization in Wireless Communication from Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. He was Post Doc Researcher at CMI, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark. He worked as Professor and Head in the Department of Computer Engineering at STES's Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering, Pune, India. Currently He is working as professor and head in Department of Artificial intelligence and Data Science, Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, Pune India. He has more than 20 years of teaching and research experience. He is a senior member IEEE, ACM member, Life member CSI and Life member ISTE. Also, he is a member of IEEE transaction on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Internet of Things Journal. He is a reviewer for IGI Global - International Journal of Rough Sets and Data Analysis (IJRSDA), Associate Editor for IGI Global - International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE), Inderscience International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC). He is a Member-Editorial Review Board for IGI Global - International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI). He is also working as an Associate Editor for IGI Global - International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE). He has published more than 150 research publications having 1711 citations and H index 18. He has 5 edited books to his credit by Springer and CRC Press. He has 7 patents to his credit. He had worked as Chairman of various Board of Studies.