Sakpere Wilson, Sakpere Aderonke Busayo, Olanipekun Ifedolapo, Simon Yaya OlaOluwa
Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria. (Contribution: Study design, Data collection, Statistical analysis, Data interpretation, Manuscript preparation, Literature search).
University of Ibadan, Nigeria. (Contribution: Study design, Data collection, Statistical analysis, Data interpretation).
Sci Afr. 2023 Jun 26:e01780. doi: 10.1016/j.sciaf.2023.e01780.
As the COVID-19 pandemic became a global health concern, many business activities have had to adjust to the protocols required to keep people safe, thereby altering the work structures of many professionals. With data gathered from 466 respondents in Nigeria, of which approximately 70% are from the South-West, this study shows how the factors associated with the health crisis have affected work productivity during this period. The snowball survey research design techniques with the two-way interaction model were employed. Multiple Correspondence Analysis was used to analyse and understand multiple and pairwise qualitative factors that influence productivity. The first part of the analysis identified boredom, remuneration, internet availability, fear of COVID-19 and depressing news of COVID-19 as the factors that had significant impacts on workers' productivity. The second part of the analysis shows how the categories of the five significant factors were either associated or not with productivity. An analysis of each of these factors showed that fear of the disease was associated with slight productivity but access to internet facilities and remuneration were strongly associated with improved work productivity, while boredom and depressing news about COVID-19 were associated with non-productivity during this period. Further evidence also showed that training and new skills acquisition might improve workers' productivity much more. We, therefore, recommend dynamic skills acquisition, training, and investment in tools and services that will enhance flexibility with the changing work structure that comes because of global crises.
随着新冠疫情成为全球关注的健康问题，许多商业活动不得不调整以适应保障人们安全所需的协议，从而改变了许多专业人士的工作结构。通过收集尼日利亚466名受访者的数据（其中约70%来自西南部），本研究展示了与健康危机相关的因素在此期间是如何影响工作效率的。采用了具有双向交互模型的滚雪球式调查研究设计技术。多元对应分析用于分析和理解影响生产力的多个和两两定性因素。分析的第一部分确定无聊、薪酬、网络可用性、对新冠病毒的恐惧以及新冠病毒的负面新闻是对员工生产力有重大影响的因素。分析的第二部分展示了这五个重要因素的类别与生产力之间的关联情况。对这些因素的逐一分析表明，对疾病的恐惧与轻微的生产力相关，但网络设施的使用和薪酬与工作效率的提高密切相关，而无聊和关于新冠病毒的负面新闻在此期间与非生产力相关。进一步的证据还表明，培训和新技能的获取可能会更大程度地提高员工的生产力。因此，我们建议进行动态的技能获取、培训，并投资于工具和服务，以增强因全球危机而产生的不断变化的工作结构的灵活性。
