Walking on a thin line! Empirical examination of work–home boundary violations faced by employees during forced work from home

Dr. S.M. Ramya completed her PhD and received Institute Research Award from the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. She finished her master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from NIT Trichy, India. Her areas of interests are on sustainability decision making and women empowerment. She has published in many reputed international conferences and peer-reviewed journals such as Management Decision, Social Responsibility Journal, Corporate Governance, Academy of Management Annual Meeting etc.

Jasmine Banu is a (MS and PhD) research scholar in organizational behaviour area at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. She holds Bachelors of Engineering (Computer Science) and Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (HR) with distinction. She is UGC-NET qualified, and has 10+ years of experience in the IT industry. Her areas of interest are at the intersection of women entrepreneurship and work–family interface. She has published in many reputed international conferences and peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Enterprising Communities, Industrial and Commercial Training, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, etc.

Dr. Aswathy Asokan Ajitha completed her PhD as a joint doctoral scholar of Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, and Curtin University, Australia recently and is working as an Assistant professor at Indian Institute of Management Amritsar. She is UGC-NET qualified, more than 5 years of teaching experience. She specializes in marketing, and her thesis work focuses on services marketing. Her major areas of research interests are services marketing, consumer behaviour and marketing strategies and policies. She has got 8 publications in journals of repute, comprising of 6 papers in ABDC ranking (1A, 3B, and 2 C). The conceptual model of her thesis is published in Journal of Services Marketing.

Dr. Rupashree Baral is an associate professor at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India with a PhD from IIT Bombay, India. She has more than ten years of teaching and research experience. Her teaching, research, training and consulting interests include corporate social and environmental responsibility, employer branding, work-life balance, women in management and entrepreneurship, knowledge sharing and hiding behavior, and technology and human interface. She has published in many reputed international conferences and peer-reviewed journals such as Personnel Review, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Social Responsibility Journal, Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, IIMB Management Review, International Journal of Process Management and Benchmarking, Human Resource Management International Digest, Journal of Indian Business Research, Gender in Management: An International Journal etc.