How coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic thought concern affects employees' work performance : evidence from real time survey

The pandemic of COVID-19 has caused an unprecedented global social and economic crisis, with governments triggering numerous interventions across geographic regions. In this paper, we exhibit evidence of real-time survey of the Middle East discovering the effects of this crisis. We attempt to examine the moderating effect of coronavirus thought concern on employees’ work performance. We used geographically responders survey from Saudi Arabia and Yemen and document variety in the level of tasks workers may perform from home. The approach applied in this study may be considered as a basic contribution for model thinking about how conceivable it is to work from home. The model utilizes to evaluate the effect of the pandemic, or structure policies are focused at reviving the economy. Results indicated the feeling about job is the most significant variable that determine worker performance. This is further supported by the significant association between the psychological state of mind and work performance. These implied that psychological feelings are significant in determining worker performance. Employees' work performance measure may promote and maintain the psychological feeling and work performance in businesses during the epidemic. This association between the feeling about job, fear and COVID-19 thought concern may imitate enhanced awareness about COVID-19 amongst workers. Our findings support the suggestion of the needs of large investments in order to push the economic wheel in all sectors, assure the flexibility of the economy and generate sustainable jobs.