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Impact analysis of COVID-19 on Nigerian workers’ productivity using multiple correspondence analysis
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...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10291860/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2023.e01780 |
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author | SAKPERE, Wilson SAKPERE, Aderonke Busayo OLANIPEKUN, Ifedolapo Simon, YAYA OlaOluwa |
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description | 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. |
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spelling | pubmed-102918602023-06-26 Impact analysis of COVID-19 on Nigerian workers’ productivity using multiple correspondence analysis SAKPERE, Wilson SAKPERE, Aderonke Busayo OLANIPEKUN, Ifedolapo Simon, YAYA OlaOluwa Sci Afr Article 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. The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2023-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10291860/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2023.e01780 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article SAKPERE, Wilson SAKPERE, Aderonke Busayo OLANIPEKUN, Ifedolapo Simon, YAYA OlaOluwa Impact analysis of COVID-19 on Nigerian workers’ productivity using multiple correspondence analysis |
title | Impact analysis of COVID-19 on Nigerian workers’ productivity using multiple correspondence analysis |
title_full | Impact analysis of COVID-19 on Nigerian workers’ productivity using multiple correspondence analysis |
title_fullStr | Impact analysis of COVID-19 on Nigerian workers’ productivity using multiple correspondence analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact analysis of COVID-19 on Nigerian workers’ productivity using multiple correspondence analysis |
title_short | Impact analysis of COVID-19 on Nigerian workers’ productivity using multiple correspondence analysis |
title_sort | impact analysis of covid-19 on nigerian workers’ productivity using multiple correspondence analysis |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10291860/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2023.e01780 |
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