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The Adaptability of Women Workers in the Higher Education Environment of Samarinda City to WFH Patterns during the Covid-19 Pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic that has hit the world since December 2019 has changed the order of human life, including work patterns in public and private sector organizations in the context of implementing social distancing. This article analyzes the adaptability of workers to produce performance in their organizational environment under abnormal conditions (during a pandemic). Research subjects are female workers in the university environment of Samarinda City from four universities selected to be the sample, namely Mulawarman University, Muhammadiyah University of East Kalimantan, Samarinda State Islamic Institute and Samarinda State Polytechnic. The result showed that the application of the Work from Home (WFH) pattern faced by female workers in the Samarinda City university environment during the Covid-19 pandemic did not become an obstacle to their work productivity, due to high adaptability. Although WFH exposes female workers, especially those who are married and have children, to various challenges related to changes in their work environment during the pandemic period. So that the higher the adaptability of female workers in the university environment in Samarinda City, the higher their work productivity will also increase during the WFH pattern during the Covid-19 pandemic. The WFH patterns become a new form of work model that can increase work productivity and improve the quality of life of female workers in the university environment in Samarinda City, because the role of the public and the domestic role it carries is still capable of being done.

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