Working from home effectiveness during Covid-19: Evidence from university staff in Indonesia

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine determinant factors that influence lecturers' productivity during working from home arrangement in the covid-19 pandemic. The focus is the impact of organizational factors that includes IT training, digital infrastructure, and management support, and individual factors as represented by digital orientation on employees' digital capability which in turn affect their productivity. A survey of academic staff from 15 faculties at a state in East Java, Indonesia was conducted as the data collection method. A total of 267 completed questionnaires were analysed using SmartPLS version 2.0. Only an individual's digital orientation was found to have significant impact on the individual's digital capability which in turn affected their d productivity during implementing work from home in this covid-19 pandemic. The research findings suggest the importance of digital orientation in staff selection criteria and for universities to move to greater online delivery of courses combined with flexible working options for staff.

COVID-19 vaccination service

“…Each study had a distinct sample size, ranging from 37 to 112,888 people. In Indonesia, vaccine fear affects between 10.5 percent and 88.5 percent of the population (Afrianty et al, 2021). The effectiveness of the vaccine is still in doubt because only >50% (Masyeni et al, 2021).…”

The Online Education System: COVID-19 Demands, Trends, Implications, Challenges, Lessons, Insights, Opportunities, Outlooks, and Directions in the Work from Home

“…The progression of the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the closure of schools and universities [16,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36] and migration to online platforms [31][32][33][34][35][36][37]. Online education platforms were used to overcome the lack of in-person classes over the COVID-19 pandemic [16,26,27].…”

“…The COVID-19 pandemic obliged schools and universities to close, teachers to work from home [6,16,[27][28][29][30][31][32][33], and the migration to the online education system [31,[33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. To overcome the problems faced by the interruption of the in-person educational systems, governments proposed strategies such as the one outlined by the Chinese government with the slogan "Suspending Classes Without Stopping Learning" [40].…”

“…To overcome the problems faced by the interruption of the in-person educational systems, governments proposed strategies such as the one outlined by the Chinese government with the slogan "Suspending Classes Without Stopping Learning" [40]. The strategy has changed teachers' work [28,37,41] and represented an increase in the importance of technology and a decrease in the importance of the physical location of work [38,42]. Authors discuss the necessity of maintaining children outside of school [27,43,44].…”

Analisis Faktor Yang Mempengaruhi WFH Pegawai Direktorat Kursus Dan Pelatihan Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Vokasi Kementerian Pendidikan Dan Kebudayaan Ri Jakarta

“…WFH membutuhkan akses data organisasi yang mendukung pegawai untuk bekerja. Diantaranya adalah broadband yang kuat dan stabil serta dukungan keamanan data dan informasi saling berbagi file antar pegawai (Afrianty, Artatanaya, & Burgess, 2021;Gibbs, Mengel, & Siemroth, 2021;Ma'rifah, 2020). Kedepannya WFH akan mendorong kolaborasi akses data-pekerja yang semakin masif di masa depan (Tønnessen, Dhir, & Flåten, 2021;Reuschke & Mason, 2020).…”