The Covid-19 Pandemic Response: A Study of Teleworking During the Malaysian MCO: What Penang Employees Had to Say

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global journal al thaqafah Pub Date : 2022-02-28 DOI:10.7187/gjatsi022022-7

Rosly Othman, Teoh Ai Ping

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One of the main effects of the Covid-19 pandemic is the working arrangement of many employees to work from home across occupations. It is understood that when unplanned change needs to be implemented, employees from some employment groups who had very little experience with working from home have to embrace the new arrangement while employees across employment who preferred to work from home, are now able to jump into such working arrangements. Consequently, the blanket arrangement to work from home may affect the employees differently. Determining the conditions that positively support teleworking will ensure companies to be more prepared if the needs arise in the future or even to continuously implement such arrangement in relation to the current situation. A descriptive qualitative study was conducted in Penang and a total of sixteen employees were approached for the study. The participants in the study were purposively selected to ensure best contribution to the issues highlighted in the study. In general, many of the participants have mixed feelings towards teleworking and some of them had no intention of continuing with teleworking in the future. Based on the thematic analysis, results showed that three themes emerged from the data and they are: conflict of commitment, context, and proficiencies.

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2019冠状病毒病大流行应对:马来西亚MCO期间远程办公研究:槟城员工要说什么

Covid-19大流行的主要影响之一是许多员工的工作安排是跨职业在家工作。据了解，当需要实施计划外的改变时，一些就业群体中很少有在家工作经验的员工必须接受新的安排，而其他就业群体中更喜欢在家工作的员工现在可以接受这种工作安排。因此，在家工作的一揽子安排可能会对员工产生不同的影响。确定积极支持远程办公的条件将确保公司在未来出现需求时做好更充分的准备，甚至可以根据当前情况继续实施这种安排。在槟城进行了一项描述性定性研究，共有16名员工参与了这项研究。研究中的参与者是有目的选择的，以确保对研究中突出的问题做出最大贡献。总的来说，许多受访者对远程办公的看法是复杂的，有些人并没有打算在未来继续使用远程办公。在主题分析的基础上，结果显示数据中出现了三个主题，它们是:承诺冲突、语境和熟练程度。

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期刊介绍： Global Journal Al-Thaqafah (GJAT) is a biannual journal, published by Universiti Sultan Azlan Shah (USAS), Perak, MALAYSIA. This journal is purely academic and peer reviewed. It caters to articles, research notes and reports, and book reviews on diverse topics relating to Islam and the Muslims. This journal is intended to provide an avenue for researchers and academics from all persuasions and traditions to share and discuss differing views, new ideas, theories, research outcomes, and socio-cultural and socio-political issues that impact on and directly or indirectly affect the Muslim World with the sole purpose of making this world a better place to live in. GJAT started in 2011 and was later granted the SCOPUS status in March 2014. Since then, GJAT has published numerous articles and materials from international contributors. GJAT welcomes contributions from all: academics, experts, and professionals. All articles submitted must be original, academic, of high scholarly standard, and meet the strict SCOPUS requirements. GJAT prioritizes articles that discuss fundamental issues and are of global relevance and importance, and publishes all articles that fulfill the basic criteria without prejudice (kindly refer to "Submission and Guidelines"). All decisions by GJAT to publish any article are final.