Employee Health during COVID-19 Pandemic and its impact on Employee Job Performance and Quality of Life

Abstract

Employees are the operating engine of organizations and their health played a fundamental part in their performance. The spread of COVID-19 creates disruptions in every field of life but more importantly the virus directly influences employee health. So far, less attention has been paid to employee health from the COVID-19 perspective. The current study attempts to discuss employee health during COVID-19 and its impact on job performance and quality of life. A total of 230 responses were received from health professionals. For data analysis, Smart PLS was used to measure the structural model. This study operationalizes working conditions, workplace relationships, and loneliness as antecedent stressors of employee health from the COVID-19 perspective, and the results indicated that the three stressors significantly contributed as antecedents of employees' health during COVID-19. Moreover, our study evaluated the nexusbetween employee health and quality of life, and job performance. The results showed that employee health is positively associated with quality of life and negatively associated with job performance. Moreover, job performance is positively and significantly associated with quality of life. More importantly, the path model was significant except for Job performance employee health quality of life. Our findings implicate that policymakers should improve working conditions, enhance collaboration among employees, and provide recreational facilities to reduce stress. Moreover, indoor physical activities should be provided to improve physical health that positively affects their mental health. By incorporating, these stress coping strategies, employees' quality of life, and job performance can be improved.