JAKARTA - Chairman of the DKI Jakarta Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) Diana Dewi responded to the emergence of a petition asking that the implementation of work from home (WFH) be returned.
Diana admitted that the majority of companies accommodated by the DKI Kadin have indeed returned to implementing work from the office to their employees. Most of the companies, Diana said, objected to WFH being implemented again, such as the strict PPKM period.
"Most of the companies under Kadin no longer allow WFH. They cannot accept their employees WFH," Diana said when contacted, Tuesday, January 10.
An employee who made the petition reasoned that WFH could increase its productivity at work. However, according to Diana, this assumption cannot be generalized. On the one hand, the company has difficulty monitoring the productivity of its workers if they are not in the office.
"The names are also workers, they prefer to stay at home and be paid. Everyone wants that too. But where does the control come from? Many friends at Kadin themselves feel that their productivity has decreased if WFH," said Diana.
However, Diana submitted the policy of working mechanisms for employees to each company.
There was a petition made by an employee named Riwaty Sidabutar that was widely discussed on social media. On the change.org page, Riwaty uploaded a petition entitled "Return WFH Because Streets Are More restable, Pollusion, and Not Productive Making".
This petition started two months ago. At that time, the status of the implementation of restrictions on community activities (PPKM) throughout Indonesia was level 1. The essential to non-essential office sector can operate with 100 percent employee capacity working in the office.
The petition began to get busy when the PPKM in Indonesia was revoked by President Joko Widodo. The petitioner's office worker explained that the reason he wanted the work from home (WFH) rules to be reinstated was because he felt stressed when he traveled to his office and returned home.
"Two years can work from home, when going to the office again it feels even more stressful," Riwaty wrote in her petition on the change.org page.
Riwaty explained that she had to travel 20 kilometers to her office and 20 kilometers to return home every working day. "Not to mention when it rains. It could be, I was stuck in traffic for a long time, one hour even using a motorbike," he said.
According to the petitioner, work from office (WFO) does not necessarily make the work of employees more productive. Because, when you have to face traffic jams and the length of the trip makes you even more tired. Meanwhile, WFH allows it to work immediately without having to travel.
Therefore, the petitioner requested that the 100 percent capacity rule for employees working in the office be reviewed. As a worker, he feels better if given the option to work from home.
As of this morning, the petition that voiced that WFH should be implemented again has at least been signed by more than 22,000 people and the number continues to grow.
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