In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the industry has implemented new policies in managing its workforce, one of which is by reducing employees. The reduction of employees in the industry causes an excessive workload on several work units in the industry, both the service industry and the manufacturing industry. To perform better manpower management, management in the industry needs to know the workload of employees in each work unit. This is quantitative research by taking a case study of one sample of the service industry involving 110 respondents and the manufacturing industry involving 90 respondents. The Modified Cooper Harper (MCH) method is applied as a tool to get an overview of the workload of employees in each category in the two industries. The workload of employees in the observed division was calculated using the MCH formula, and then heavy, medium, and light workloads were classified accordingly. In addition, an analysis will be carried out to determine the factors that influence the achievement of the workload. From the results of the study, it was found that the classification of the heavy, medium and light workloads occurred in both the service industry and the manufacturing industry. There are significant differences between each workload classification in the service industry. However, these results did not occur in the manufacturing industry. External and internal factors affect the workload of employees in the two industries, but their influence in the two industries is different.

Abstrak-This study aims to determine the efforts to increase the productivity of independent entrepreneurs towards a just economy as a form of adaptation during a pandemic. The sample consists of students who already have a business or who do not have a business as many as 137 students. The data was collected through a mail survey (google forms) and analyzed by descriptive method to find out the description of the respondents to the problem under study. The results of this study indicate that efforts to increase entrepreneurial productivity through improving the characteristics of superior entrepreneurs, improving marketing strategies and improving business performance are a new form of adaptation during the pandemic in order to realize independent entrepreneurship towards a just economy. The results of this study also have two implementations: (1) theoretical implementation for the results of this study is to realize independent entrepreneurship towards a just economy, then the application of competitive strategies in the form of Cost Leadership Strategy, Differentiation Strategy, Innovation Strategy ( Innovation Strategy), Growth Strategy, Alliance Strategy, (2) managerial implementation for the results of this study is an effort to increase entrepreneurial productivity through improving the characteristics of superior entrepreneurs, improving marketing strategies and improving business performance as a form of adaptation. only during the pandemic to realize independent entrepreneurship towards a just economy. This provides motivation to survive in the midst of high competition with good ICT mastery and expand overseas Keywords: Adapting to New Habits, Productivity, Self-Employment