Work from Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic—The Impact on Employees’ Self-Assessed Job Performance

Claudiu Vasile Kifor (), Roxana Florența Săvescu and Raluca Dănuț
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Claudiu Vasile Kifor: Research Center for Sustainable Products and Processes, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, 550143 Sibiu, Romania
Roxana Florența Săvescu: Research Center for Sustainable Products and Processes, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, 550143 Sibiu, Romania
Raluca Dănuț: Research Center for Sustainable Products and Processes, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, 550143 Sibiu, Romania

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 17, 1-31

Abstract: This study investigates the impact of remote workplace factors on employees’ social and technical self-assessed performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact of the variables belonging to the employee’s profile, organizational environment, and work-life balance categories on social and technical performance were analyzed, based on a survey of 801 Romanian employees, using ordinary least squares and quantile regression techniques. While the first method provided summary point estimates that calculated the average effect of the explanatory variables for the “average employee”, the second approach allowed us to focus on the effects explanatory variables have on the entire conditional distribution of the response variables, taking into account that this effect can be different for employees with different levels of performance. Job autonomy, engagement, communication skills, trust in co-workers, occupational self-efficacy, and family-work conflict, significantly influence both social and technical performance. PhD education and trust in management significantly influence social performance, while motivation, stress, the share of time spent in remote work, organizational commitment, children in the household, and household size, influence only technical performance.

Keywords: work from home; social performance; technical performance; COVID-19 pandemic; quantile regression analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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