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Who works from home during the COVID-19 pandemic? Case of Indonesia

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  • Riatu Mariatul Qibthiyyah

    (Institute for Economic and Social Research, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia (LPEM FEB UI))

  • Fauziah Zen

    (Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia; Economics Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA))

Abstract

During the COVID period, a form of remote working, work from home, is adopted in the workplace and/or is opted by the workers. Based on SAKERNAS August 2020 survey, 10.39% of salaried workers worked from home during this early period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploring on factors affecting the choice of remote working, we find vulnerable populations, as in the case of women and disabled workers, have a higher probability of working remotely from home. However, married workers correlated with a lower probability of working from home. Across sectors, manufacturing, transport, hotel and restaurant sectors are positively correlated with a higher probability of working remotely, and the reverse for the case of health and social and the government sector in general. In this early pandemic period, salaried workers who work from home mostly experienced a lower or the same level of hours work compared to the period before the COVID-19 pandemic. There seems to be divergence on the benefits of working from home, as from descriptive, an increase in earnings is dominated by workers with a relatively high wage rate.

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  • Riatu Mariatul Qibthiyyah & Fauziah Zen, 2022. "Who works from home during the COVID-19 pandemic? Case of Indonesia," LPEM FEBUI Working Papers 202269, LPEM, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Indonesia, revised 2022.
    • Handle: RePEc:lpe:wpaper:202269
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    Keywords

    COVID-19 impact on jobs — work from home — remote work — internet usage — vulnerable workers;

    JEL classification:

    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • O21 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Planning Models; Planning Policy

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