Do It…Now or Never! Procrastination As a Backlog to Employee Productivity

Abstract

Procrastination has become a part and parcel of life nowadays. People are becoming lazy due to one and the other reason and use to delay work to latest possible time which eventually lead to messing up the whole schedule as well as affect physical as well as psychological well-being of a person also. This research is conducted to find out the major factors that induce procrastination tendency in the workplace. Based on observation and available literature, a questionnaire was made. In this study, a sample of 100 employees was collected from people working in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) companies of the Chandigarh region. SPSS 25 was used for the purposes of analysis. By using exploratory factor analysis, three factors i.e., the number of alternatives available, level of anxiety, and cyberslacking, have been explored that cause delay in work and are the major cause of low productivity. These factors were confirmed later on using confirmatory factor analysis using AMOS 23.0.