Abstract
Telecommuting is used to work far from the central office to achieve performance but now the term is shifting. Work from home is now hard to do since workers also have to take care of their families. Job routines are still demanding and at the same time, taking care of family and handling domestic affairs tasks can not be neglected since safety comes first to protect the family from the virus. Job demands shift in this COVID 19 pandemic as many domestic and office problems occur while people work from home. This review paper elaborates the important soft skills for telecommuting who work from home in this pandemic. The review was conducted from 1986 until the latest one in 2020. This review results in some soft skills that have evidenced their presence for telecommuters. The existence of soft skills are demanding and undoubtedly plays important role in helping telecommuters complete their job.
Highlights
Corona Virus 19 Disease (COVID-19) has spread globally and this has made a new habit for all mankind on this earth
Coordinating virtually may rise other obstacles. This situation is far beyond what has happened before the pandemic. (Gajendran, 2007) stated that formerly, telecommuting is considered to be a simple condition in which the job assignments can contribute to giving good performance result even conducted at home
Telecommuting has been a solution for many workers
Summary
Corona Virus 19 Disease (COVID-19) has spread globally and this has made a new habit for all mankind on this earth. Since the virus spread one of the health protocols is keeping a safe distance from other people. This has made people keep their distance in interacting with one another. Employees work from home and children study from home The situation of this pandemic has transformed a living room into instant meeting rooms, a bedroom into an instant office, a dining room into a workshop, etc. This kind of job help workers to be able to perform their job. While dealing with all the traffic at home, workers are still occupied with how to perform their job and somehow are interrupted with how they can conduct their job remotely from home
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