The Influence of Working From Home on Job Performance among Academicians from Kota Bharu Polytechnic, Kelantan During Covid-19 Pandemic: A Pilot Study

Abstract

The world's wealthiest countries were first hit by the unique coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. One of the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a global shift in work ergonomic patterns, since millions of individuals have substituted their typical work environment with their homes in order to restrict the spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) infection. The goal of our cross-sectional pilot research was to determine the impact of working from home on job performance among academicians at Kota Bharu Polytechnic who had been working from home before they joined this study. The participants were asked to fill in our printed questionnaire about the impact of working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic job performance and how it influences academicians' performance. The results indicate that the entire measures achieved a highreliability coefficient that ranged from 0.768 to 0.945, based on Cronbach's alpha coefficient test (they all exceeded 0.70 benchmark) with no significant deviation of skewness values from zero. In addition, the results of the study indicated that work from home and work motivation significantly affect academicians' job performance. The study confirmed the validity of an instrument that investigated at work motivation as a mediating variable when analysing the effects of working from home on job performance and how it affects academicians' performance.

Working From Home on Job Performance During COVID-19: A Pilot Study of Malaysia Public Higher Education Institutions‘ Academics

“…This is due to the possibility that computers might create an environment in which people feel more impersonal and less concerned with how others may see them. Moreover, [13] study compared the response rates, data completeness, and cost of various invitation methods: traditional paper printed questionnaire and online questionnaire found out that there is a higher return rate using traditional paper printed. There is a low return rate through online survey, but online survey was somewhat more affordable and had fewer missing values compared to surveys issued with paper based.…”

“…Additionally, there has been little study on this issue in Malaysia, particularly by intellectuals [12] [13]. The Malaysian government, which wants to know how well its freelance work strategy performed during the outbreak, will gain immensely from this novel research strategy.…”