Work-From-Home Set-up in an Autonomous University and Work Engagement of Non-teaching Personnel
Abstract
This descriptive quantitative research assessed the work-from-home set-up of an autonomous university in terms of autonomy, convenience, and safety, and work engagement in terms of physical, cognitive, and emotional engagement of the non-teaching personnel. A survey questionnaire was the main instrument in gathering the data used in answering the research problems and in testing the hypothesis. A total of 81 employees were the respondents of the study. They were chosen using a total enumeration-sampling method. Thereafter, the raw data were encoded and statistically treated for analysis and interpretation. The assessment of the employee-respondents was computed and quantified using the mean. Significant relationships between variables of work-from-home set-up and work-engagement were determined using Pearson r. Based on the findings, the following conclusions are derived: Work-from-home setup provides the non-teaching personnel the opportunity to carry out their daily jobs correctly/effectively and efficiently, therefore this option of working may work well for some employees but not for others dependent on their home environment; Employees feel more engaged with their work because working from home affords them autonomy, safety, and convenience during the COVID‐19 pandemic, and that this work engagement leads to happiness; There is a significant relationship between the variables of work from home set up and work engagement of employee-respondents of the university.