As work from home and other working flexible models such as telework, or telecommuting become more widespread with the new advancement in digitalization transformation, work from home (WFH) arrangement on an unprecedented global scale has been adopted by many organizations. WFH is one of the alternatives of working model occurrence emanating from the Covid-19 pandemic as the lockdown or stay-at-home measures entered force. Nevertheless, employees faced up and down motivation during WFH, and triggered the studies series on motivator and demotivating factors for WFH. However, previous studies have only discussed the topic theory-wise and not into factors that motivate or drawback from employees’ views. Provided that, this paper aims to fill in the gaps by examining the motivator and demotivating factors of WFH. Using a quantitative approach, 58 workers from public local universities who have WFH experience participated in the survey and the response was analyzed with Descriptive statistics using SPSS software. The study identifies both flexibility and work-life balance as motivator factors while work performance is a demotivating factor for WFH. The outcome of this study can be of strategic importance for higher education institutions to improve the WFH standard operating procedure structure in the future where further research can scrutinize the demotivating factors from a different perspective to provide a better solution for WFH. Moreover, this study can analyze gender and married with single to get multiple responses for benefitted party and finally further research on WFH operation level efficiency.
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