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understand other people and their feelings are often complicated. Like other respondents, R5 also felt no barrier in work time, personal time, and even weekends or workdays. This made him think that the work pressure was extensive. To him,work-life balance is working at his own will. That is thevalueof flexibility above all. f) Case VI Our last respondent, R6, was a married female working at Grameenphone as a senior executive. She has been handling office work, MBA studies and family like a champion. She said she had experienced work from home modality for almost two years. She liked the WFH modality only because it could save time, and she did not have to waste time in traffic jams. Other than that, she does not seem WFH renders that much value. Judging solely based on work, she expressed that she does not like working from home. She thinks that work gets done quickly in the office. She had been working from the office for quite sometime before the pandemic. When asked about the convenience of shifting to this new work modality, she said it was very inconvenient, difficult and stressful to jump shift to this new modality. She did not know properly what to do and how to do things, which was troublesome. She expressed that one of the opposing sides of WFH is solving tech-related issues. Solving these issues becomes quite extremely difficult. She also saidthat those meetings took up too much time. You have to call a discussion while working from home to know one thing. On the other hand, you can efficiently resolve a matter in a few minutes while you are in the office. She opined that the work stress was enormous in WFH conditions. She recalled one incident when she had to manage her COVID affected mother, her whole family, and her work simultaneously, and she expressed how stressful it was. Grameenphone maintains a policy called “Work-life integration”. This gives people the flexibility to work and meet deadlines at their own pace. People can respond to personal needs during office time if needed due to this policy. R6 answered that she liked this policy and it helps her achieve a good work-life balance in her life V. R esearch R esult This study aims to understand the impact of work from home policy and the preference for the work policy. All the interview responses are transcribed in the form of their actual quotations. These supporting quotations will be matched under three different themes to formulate the results. Key findings will group matching quotes under one umbrella. Here we present an analytical table for the three different themes. Theme 1: Positive Impacts of WFH on work-life balance Table 2: Analytical table for positive impacts Key findings Supporting Quote Example Staying close to family is a plus point. “ You get the sense of comfort that you are staying with your family and can see them all time. While working from the office, this is usually not the case” (Case I) “I have been able to be a part of my daughter’s life” (Case IV) “I could talk to my sister whenever I wanted to” (Case V) Getting free time can help give you a good balance “ Sometimes you can save up a lot of free time when you have individual tasks and tasks that usually do not depend on other people’s feedback” (Case I) “ Time lost due to travelling was saved” (Case VI) “Using the free time, I have been able to finish my chores around the house and improve my living conditions.” (Case II) “ You can give time to a few of your side projects or passion projects in case you can manage the work well.” (Case I) Impact of Work from Home (WFH) on the Work-Life Balance of Professionals Working in the Telecommunications and Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) Sector: An Exploratory Study in Bangladesh 76 Global Journal of Management and Business Research Volume XXII Issue IV Version I Year 2022 ( ) A © 2022 Global Journals Finally, he preached his preference for hybrid modality quite a few times and thinks it serves a much better work-life balance.