NAVIGATING CHALLENGES IN HYBRID WORK: EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN IT EMPLOYEES

For women working in the information technology industry, the change to hybrid work schedules has brought opportunities as well as challenges. Though flexible work schedules allow for a work-life balance in a better way, where they create several problems and this includes an increase in workload, a visibility lack in the career development, and the difficulty in maintaining the professional contacts. The research focus on an organizational support, occupational productivity and mental health, where the proposed study studies the primary challenges women in information technology experience in hybrid work environments. With the available well-designed questionnaires, 350 women working in the information technology field are used for collecting the data. From the experimental findings, 72% of respondents believe that the employment causes stress; 68% claim that they find it challenging to progress further with their careers; and 61% claim that they feel isolated in professional networks. Moreover, 55% of women claim the workload is differently distributed than male colleagues.
Keywords - Hybrid work, women IT employees,