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1.3 Study Objectives
The key objective of the SCOPE-ILO initiative was to study the Work from Home (WfH)
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Model as adopted in PSEs in India. Specifically, the study objectives included :
a. To investigate the impact of the Work from Home (WfH) model on Women
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Executives/Managers in PSEs in India; also its long term sustainability.
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b. To draw particularly the experiences of women executives in PSEs in adopting
the WfH work arrangement.
The study has resulted into bringing out this comprehensive report on the adopted
working from home arrangement in PSEs. A key outcome of the study is a set of
guidelines developed from a gender lens, and proposed for PSEs to integrate it in their
WfH policies or guidelines.
1.4 Outline of the study report
This report has been divided into six chapters including introduction and conclusion,
which specifies a way forward for SCOPE as well as the network of champions to
advocate and work towards promoting the Guidelines for a Gender Sensitive Work
from Home (WfH) Policy in PSEs, a key outcome of the study. Also, encourage
adoption of the same in the PSEs in line with their organisational requirements.
The present chapter has introduced the SCOPE-ILO study in the context of COVID
declared pandemic. Chapter 2 presents the methodology for the study. The study
6 PSEs covered under the study are SCOPE member organisations. SCOPE has 201 member
organisations.
7 Based on the study findings, trainings have been conducted with SCOPE Taskforce a
Network of Champions, who will make use of the study within their organisations,
specifically sharing the guidelines that have emerged as a key outcome; they will also use it
in their gender training programs with different PSEs, which are SCOPE member
organisations (Chapter 6, the concluding chapter mentions the guidelines; and Annexure I
presents the dissemination plan)
8 In the report, the term executives has been used. The group of women who participated in
the study, they fall in the category of E4-E9, wherein E refers to Executive. E4-E9 includes
people in supervior/senior management positions.
9 The study covered E4-E9 Level women in PSEs wherein women executives especially above
the rank of E7 tend to be in managerial and leadership positions. The same E4-E9 executive
level!was!part!of!the!previous!study!on!Women!in!Leadership!and!Management!in!PSUs!in!
India,!conducted!by!SCOPE-ILO in 2017-18. Through the current study on WfH, ILO in
particular aimed to revisit the same set of people to know their views in the present on WfH
which was enforced due to COVID-19 pandemic. A majority of the E4-E9 women executives
previously participating in the study (n=1665) had favoured WfH arrangement for women to
maintain a better work life balance; and indicated it as an enabler or facilitating their career
advancement.
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