Global Pandemic and Work Organizations: Impacts of Covid-19 on Work in Nigeria

The COVID-19 pandemic has spread round the world with relative influence on various spheres of life in different countries. Nigeria is not an exception to countries where its debilitating effect is felt on humans in diverse ways. This had thus given the government a cause of concern and the federal government in the bid to contain the spread had enforced a compulsory lockdown, closure of the nation’s boundary and airports. This had no doubt affected the work organizations that mostly rely on trade and migrations. This study therefore examined the impact of COVID-19 on work in Nigeria. Considering that intellectual response in this area is scanty and this study therefore filled the gap in knowledge. The study is qualitative and thus collected data through secondary method of data collection, and thus relied on robust content analysis of secondary data for its analyses. The study concluded that COVID-19 has adverse impacts on the employment of workers of most organizations as workers lost their jobs and some were suspended. Most work organizations had their workers’ welfare also affected by COVID, and work organizations both in the private and public sectors have their productivity hampered by COVID-19 pandemic.