Self-Learning Method in Multi-Meeting and Multitasking Conditions

Abstract

Life has changed in many ways since the COVID-19 pandemic. Several policies are carried out by an organization to continue business processes, including a limited number of employees working in the office, a mechanism of Work-from-Home, and online meetings. That mechanism aimed to reduce interactions physically. The need for online communication plays a significant role in supporting the business process of the company's sustainability. Digital meetings conducted within the organization allow unlimited interactions between people. The question is: whether increasing the load during a meeting is beneficial for the organization and individual employees? Even though the meeting and other things can help achieve company performance, holding too many meetings and spending too much time in a day can harm individuals, including factors such as fatigue, perceived workload, and productivity. And it also affected learning activity. This paper describes the research done by the writer, which is entirely based on responses from employees about the multi-meeting and multitasking effects of using online meetings. It analyzes the learning activity, to compare learning realization before and after the pandemic. It's also described how PLN Corporate University creates media learning to make learning more productive and make employees the center of learning and able to do self-learning. In a short, focus on findings by the researcher at PLN according to the multi-meeting and multitasking effect which is wholly based on the response from the employees, and how it related to creating learning method by PLN Corporate University to make learning more productive.