Education is a weapon to improve one’s life. The role of teacher in education goes beyond teaching that helps to acquire knowledge, skills and develop the personality and attitude of the students but from the past one year there has been a drastic change in the overall education system. The Covid 19 pandemic has led to disruption of global economy and financial market all over the world due to which the concept of work from home has emerged. The main purpose of this research is to find out the difficulties and challenges faced by the professors working at their home space and how they balance their family and work simultaneously. The sudden shift of this virtual education system has become a hurdle for majority of the professors as they are not Tech savvy. From this study we found that, the willingness to work from home is entirely depends upon the home environment, family and with proper digital support. The data used in this research are primary in nature and collected through Google form. This study covers the Mumbai area.

Keywords: Professor, Work from Home, Virtual Learning.