Leveraging the Covid-19 Crisis in Making Work-From-Home A Mainstream Practice InThe Oil and Gas Industry

During the covid-19 crisis, the oil and gas industry is among industries that face challenges inselling their products and struggling to manage their cash flow. the pressure to improve financialdiscipline within the oil and gas industry started even before the covid-19 crisis. this paper validatesthe feasibility of adopting work-from-home (wfh) as a permanent practice for oil and gas companies inindonesia and how it will help to reduce costs, enhance employee productivity, and improve theirorganizational agility. the survey was conducted two weeks after the start of the forced wfh“experiment.” one hundred nine executives from various oil and gas companies in indonesia took part inthe survey. the result of this study resulted in most of the large and established companies in indonesia,in particular, the oil and gas companies, being slow in adopting this practice. the covid-19 crisis couldbe the turning point for a wider and lasting adoption of wfh in the oil and gas industry. the surveyresults validate that business can still run even when their employees are working from home. also, thesurvey results showed that a shift of opinion toward accepting wfh as the new normal exists. the surveyindicates that many companies have crossed psychological and mental blocks and are receptive to the ideaof making wfh part of normal hr practices.