EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN E-WORKING ADOPTION AND WORK-LIFE BALANCE AMONG ACADEMIC STAFF IN UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTHWEST, NIGERIA

This study explored the relationship between E-working adoption and work-life balance among academic staff in Universities in southwest, Nigeria. The issue of work-life balance has become an issue of great concern to all practitioners and experts including employers of labour, employees, government agencies, policy makers, academicians etc. With the adoption of E-working among university academic staff, there’s need to investigate how this new work order affect the work-life balance of employees knowing full well that their daily activities was centred around the four walls of classroom before the adoption of E-working after the COVID-19 pandemic.The study was a survey, in which Ex post facto and exploratory research design was adopted and a total of 694 participants took part in the study. Questionnaire format was employed for data collection, obtained data were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics, utilizing the SPSS version21.0 package. The findings showed that there was a significant relationship between E-working adoption and work-life balance among academic staff in Universities in South-West, Nigeria {r (692) = 22**, p<.01};there was no significant relationship between E-working adoption and leisure activities (a dimension of work-life balance) among academic staff in Universities in South-West, Nigeria (r (692) = 07, p>.05); there was a significant and positive relationship between E-working adoption and personal life (a dimension of work-life balance) among academic staff in Universities in South-West, Nigeria (r (692) = .28**, p<.01). It was hence concluded that there’s a significant relationship between E-working adoption and work-life balance among academic staff in universities in southwest, Nigeria.