Telework and Remote Work

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matti Vartiainen
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
New Ways Of Working ◽  
Remote Workers ◽  
Personal Devices ◽  
People Today

“Telework” and “remote work” have both increased sharply in recent years during and after the pandemic. The basic difference between telework and remote work is that a teleworker uses personal electronic devices in addition to working physically remotely from a place other than an office or company premises, whereas remote work does not require visits to the main workplace or the use of electronic personal devices. “Mobile tele- and remote workers” use several other places in addition to home for working. “Digital online telework” is a global form of employment that uses online platforms to enable individuals, teams, and organizations to access other individuals or organizations to solve problems or to provide services in exchange for payment. Often tele- and remote workers cowork in virtual teams and projects. The prevalence of various types of tele- and remote working vary. Although there are conceptual challenges to operationalizing the concept, it is estimated that hundreds of millions—and possibly more—people today earn their living working at and from their home or other places using digital tools and platforms. In the future, it is expected that new hybrid modes of working will emerge enabled by digital technologies. These changes in working increase the complexity of job demands because of the increased variety of contextual job characteristics. The main benefits of these new ways of working are organizational flexibility and individual autonomy; at the same time, unclear social relations may increase feelings of isolation and challenge the work-life balance.

scholarly journals Challenges for Romanian Entrepreneurs in Managing Remote Workers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyu Zhan ◽  
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Delia Mioara Popescu ◽  
Valentin Radu ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Teams ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Virtual Work ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Organizational Boundaries ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Remote Workers

In an increasingly globalized society managing remote work allows entrepreneurs to compete favorably and increase profit. Moreover, with the rapid development of information and electronic media, decentralized work has become much more comfortable, faster, and more efficient in response to the globalization of work processes. Dynamic environments have introduced virtual work teams that collaborate through communication technologies across geographical, temporal, cultural, and organizational boundaries to achieve a common goal in the results of their organizations. Remote working grows in popularity, but with it also increases the need of the organization to demand high performance from their members through their projects and activities. All over the world, statistics showed in 2019 a steep increase in the number of virtual workers. Both managers and companies face a high number of challenges to keep their employees satisfied and their “numbers” up. This article focuses on the emergence of Virtual Teams in Romania, primarily through the real necessity of remote workers. We highly discuss the advantages and disadvantages of working from home for Romanian Entrepreneurs, especially in the current pandemic state of the entire world.

scholarly journals How It Started, How It’s Going: Why Past Research Does Not Translate to Pandemic Induced Remote Work Realities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Torres ◽  
Mehmet A. Orhan
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Virtual Team ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
The Core ◽  
Remote Workers ◽  
Unique Nature

This paper presents a critical evaluation of recently published studies that attempted to remedy the remote work and virtual team complexities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to increasing prevalence of remote work, a diverse set of recommendations was made by summarizing what we know about remote work complexities and how we can combat them. In this piece, we argue that most recommendations being offered fail to serve the needs of leaders of virtual teams and remote workers, as many publications have overlooked the core challenges emerging with the forced nature of working remotely. However, the unique nature of the pandemic poses particular challenges that go beyond previously identified ones. Thus, there is an urgent need to address unidentified obstacles and challenge misplaced recommendations to better equip executives and employees working remotely.

Features of the vacation of a remote employee: a note to the accountant of a medical institution

2021 ◽  
pp. 64-73
Author(s):  
V.A. Lebedev ◽  
E.I. Lebedeva
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Medical Institution ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Employment Contract ◽  
Labor Legislation ◽  
Remote Workers ◽  
The Right

A comparative analysis of the latest changes in labor legislation concerning the implementation of the right to leave by remote workers is carried out. The article considers the legal differentiation of the norms on vacation of remote workers who perform remote work in accordance with the employment contract on a permanent basis, and remote workers who perform remote work temporarily. The complex issues of the application of labor legislation to remote relations and the applied models of vacation regulation are considered; restrictions that cannot worsen the situation of a remote worker, deprive him of constitutional guarantees, or restrict his right to rest.

Features of the working hours of remote workers: a note to the accountant of the medical institution

2021 ◽  
pp. 48-56
Author(s):  
V.A. Lebedev ◽  
E.I. Lebedeva
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Working Time ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Direct Control ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Labor Legislation ◽  
Remote Workers ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article analyzes the novelties of labor legislation initiated by the Federal Law “On Amendments to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation regarding the Regulation of Remote (remote) Work and temporary transfer of an employee to remote (remote) work on the initiative of the employer in exceptional cases” of 08.12.2020 N 407-FZ, which entered into force on January 1, 2021. The distinctive features of the working regime of remote workers are considered, which are characterized by the lack of direct control of the employee by the employer and, as a result, the urgent need to ensure the interaction of the parties to the employment contract through the use of IT technologies. The main changes in the regulation of the working regime of remote workers are shown, including the norms on the interaction of the employee and the employer, on the organization of the work of the remote employee and his working time.

How to monitor the discipline of remote workers

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-79
Author(s):  
A. Neretina
Keyword(s):  
Remote Work ◽  
Remote Employees ◽  
Remote Workers

Many companies during the coronavirus pandemic unscheduled transferred their employees to previously unfamiliar remote work. In connection with this transfer, employers have many questions: what documents need to be signed for the transfer to remote work, how to organize remote work, whether remote employees can visit offices on schedule, etc. Also, one of the main problems faced by employers is the problem of controlling the discipline of employees working remotely. How to control employees who do not have a workplace in the office, and at the same time not violate their rights? We will try to give answers to these questions in this article.

Distance Labor Trends in Digitalization

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 68-74
Author(s):  
YEkatyerina Kashtanova ◽  
Vasiliy Svistunov ◽  
V. Abdullina ◽  
A. Gubina
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
New Work ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Hr Management ◽  
The World ◽  
Work Model

Rapidly spreading around the world, the coronavirus instantly changed the usual way of life of mankind. Employers are forced to massively transfer their employees to remote work mode. Humanity has entered one of its most global experiments: will employees who have experienced a new work model return to the office version? Which of the long-standing myths about remote work have already lost their relevance? How do modern digital tools transform the attitude of employers and employees to remote work? What does remote work change in the company's HR management practice? We have tried to answer at least some of these questions in this article, based on personal experience of remote work and studying the practices of remote labor relations in Russia and abroad.

scholarly journals The Link Between Personal Factors and Workaholism: The Role of Remote Working During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Psichologija ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 12-22
Author(s):  
Modesta Morkevičiūtė ◽  
Auksė Endriulaitienė
Keyword(s):  
Type A ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Important Variable ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Remote Workers ◽  
Type A Personality ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of the way of doing work for the relationship between employees’ perfectionism, type A personality and workaholism during COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 668 Lithuanian employees participated in a study. The sample included employees who worked in the workplace (n = 331), as well as those who worked completely from home (n = 337). The levels of workaholism were measured using DUWAS-10 (Schaufeli et al., 2009). A multidimensional perfectionism scale (Hewitt et al., 1991) was used for the measurement of perfectionism. Type A personality was assessed with the help of the Framingham type A personality scale (Haynes et al., 1980). It was revealed in a study that the positive relationship between perfectionism and workaholism was stronger in the group of complete remote workers. It was further found that the moderating role of the way of doing work was not significant for the relationship between type A personality and workaholism. Overall, the findings support the idea that remote work is an important variable determining the development of health-damaging working behaviors among those employees who excel perfectionistic attributes. Therefore, the way of doing work must be considered when addressing the well-being of employees.

scholarly journals Workplace Innovation through Proactivity. Job Crafting and Work Engagement Dynamics among Remote Workers in Italy.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arianna Costantini ◽  
Serena Rubini
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Bayesian Estimator ◽  
Work Organisation ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Remote Workers ◽  
Workplace Innovation

In this chapter, we adopt a psychological perspective to the study of workplace innovation in Italy. Framing our contribution in the context of remote working and workplace innovation before, during, and after the COVID-19 emergency, we investigate how proactive behaviours (i.e., job crafting) transforming remote work processes resulted in different levels of work engagement during the pandemic. Three-wave longitudinal data were collected from a final sample of 35 remote workers (N=105 observations). Results from multilevel analyses with Bayesian estimator showed that remote working was associated with higher frequencies of behaviours aimed at actively distancing by one’s work role, which in turn was associated with lower work engagement. On the other side, employees reporting more efforts to optimise their work processes proactively reported higher engagement than those displaying less proactivity towards remote work organisation. These findings highlight the need for remote working solutions to account for individual proactivity in enacting remote work processes, since such behaviours are significant predictors of work engagement, a key factor to allow higher organisational performance and work-related well-being.

scholarly journals REMOTE WORK: TECHNOLOGIES AND EXPERIENCE OF THE ORGANIZATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 9-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Konobevtsev ◽  
N. Laas ◽  
E. Gurova ◽  
I. Romanova
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Remote Workers ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
Online Labor ◽  
Distance Work

The types of remote employment (distance work and freelance) have been considered. Directions of use of modern information technologies at the organization of remote employment have been indicated and their developed characteristic has been given. The activity of freelancers has been described in detail. The mechanisms of functioning of international online labor exchanges and Russian platforms have been revealed. The results of a study on the practice of remote work in modern domestic organizations have been adduced. According to the results of the study, conclusions have been made about the areas of remote employment, its advantages and disadvantages for the organization and employees; about the software and hardware used by employers; about the problems of regulatory regulation of remote employment; about the competencies of remote workers and freelancers.

scholarly journals The slang of young Russians and French: reinventing scientific linguistic collaboration in the age of coronavirus and containment

XLinguae ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 237-253
Author(s):  
Larisa G. Vikulova ◽  
Larisa V. Ukhova ◽  
Zhanna K. Gaponova ◽  
Lina V. Razumova ◽  
Polina S. Ukhova
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
New Ways Of Working ◽  
Language Data ◽  
Scientific Project ◽  
Youth Language ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
Linguistic Units

From the beginning, remote work was considered in connection with social and environmental problems. The pandemic and coronavirus have left many teachers and researchers unable to experiment with online work. This new way of organizing work is at the heart of exciting research in various fields: remote collaborative science, imaging, training, and distance learning are an opportunity to demonstrate relevance and find new ways of working and interacting. This article is in the framework of a scientific project carried out over a year at a distance. He deals with the problem of learning the youth language (youth slang, the term is used in Russian linguistics) and aims to present the results of a comparative study of the structural and semantic features of shale of Russian and French youth. Language experiments are based on data from students of Yaroslavl State University and the University of Poitiers. The first part deals with the description of the procedure for collecting, verifying, and processing language data, as well as the methodology for collecting; it is based on psycholinguistic experiments, field studies, and sociological studies conducted in the student environment of the two countries. The second part of the article presents the results of the semantic and structural analysis of lexical units, morphological and semantic families representing argotisms (slanguismes, in Russian) of young people recorded during the survey. The derivational mechanisms used in French and Russian youth slang are studied and interpreted. This allowed the authors to discover language universals common to young Russian and French speakers, as well as to identify culturally relevant linguistic units capable of modelling and presenting the collective identity of Russian and French students, their language image of the world, and their language personality.

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