Impact of Occupational Stress on Employees Performances of Selected Banks in Rajasthan during Covid-19 Pandemic

Period of lockdown was a nightmare for people at large; during this time everyone was having a threat of being infected and getting quarantined under the minimum doubt of infection. The people who were engaged in the essential services were vulnerable to infection like people from medical field, police department, fire department, banks and even some of the routine workers in society. This was the time when the above said people had faced a great amount of stress i.e. personal as well as professional. In best of the knowledge of the researcher, the psychological impact of COVID-19 was even higher as compared to actually getting infected from the same; on the other hand performance related components had negative impact on the bank employees. This present study will evaluate the conditions of occupational stress during the period of COVID-19 and will also comment on the situation of bank employees during this period. The researcher has taken the sample of 200 bank employees from Jaipur, Rajasthan. SPSS 22.0 was used for the analysis of data and ANOVA (One way) was used to test the hypothesis. Keywords: Pandemic, Bank employees, occupational stress, COVID-19