Turnitin Report - The Effects of Work From Home and Job Characteristics on Performance in a Indonesia Regional Government Agency

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic that occurred in Indonesia made the Government of the Republic of Indonesia through the Ministry of State Apparatus Empowerment andBureaucratic Reform establish a policy that Civil Servants can carry out official duties by working from their homes / residences as an effort to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus.The purpose of this study was to determine and analyze the effect ofworking from home and job characteristics on the performance of civil servants through motivation as a mediator.The relationship between variables in this study was analyzed using the Structural Equation Modeling-Partial Least Square method. Data in this study were obtained through a questionnaire filled out by45Civil Servants in the Research and Development Regional Agency of East Kalimantan Province who carry out work from home.The results of this study indicate that working from home and job characteristics havea positive and significant direct effect on motivation and performance. In addition, the results also show that working from home and job characteristics do not have an indirect effect on performance through motivation as a mediator.The work from home system for Civil Servants is implemented because of a necessity due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In the future it is necessary to establish a national employment regulation related to the work from home system for Civil Servants so that with thisregulation the work from home system can be applied sustainably for certain job characteristics.