Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty members have faced a changed and challenging environment. They were faced with reallocating their time across various teaching, research, and service responsibilities; adjusting their teaching format, testing, and labs; and dealing with reduced access to the resources they needed to teach and/or conduct research, all while trying to maintain the quality of their work. In this Focus On, we present faculty member's self-reported changes in their quality of work as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the spring semester of 2021, we surveyed a sample of physics and astronomy faculty members; most physics and astronomy faculty members reported the pandemic has had negative impacts on their overall quality of work, but the impact of the pandemic varied based on the work activity (e.g., teaching, mentoring, collecting data, publishing) and varied across faculty members.