Physical inactivity – The human health’s greatest enemy

For decades, research has been highlighting the positive impact of physical activity on health. Despite the immense efforts made by many professional and scientific organizations to raise individual and societal awareness about the role of a sufficient quantity and intensity of physical activity in everyday life and to increase the level of adherence, the situation is still very worrying. Even more worrying is the fact that increasingly prolonged periods of physical inactivity are insidiously and aggressively taking over modern people’s lives – at school, at work, at home, even at leisure. It is probably incomprehensible and difficult for many to accept, but physical inactivity is becoming the first and worst enemy of health in today’s society.

PLANNING SOLUTIONS FOR SPACES FOR REMOTE OPERATION

This article explores the possibilities of remote work. A definition is given, a regulatory framework is identified. The main advantages and disadvantages are analyzed. The negative factors that make it difficult to carry out work at home are identified. To compensate for the proposed use cases of spaces, also called co-working spaces. For the organization of remote work, there are five groups of needs. To meet the needs of the appropriate jobs. These are isolated rooms, open areas, meeting rooms, creative workshops, and rooms for group activi-ties. Typical modular planning solutions consisting of four zones: an office zone, which includes the listed types of premises, a zone of administrative and office premises, a zone of administrative and office premises, a leisure and rec-reation area. If necessary, the possibility of planning decisions is provided.

The German-Polish Tax Problems of Cross-Border Workers in the COVID-19 Pandemic – When the Remedy is Worse than the Problem

The article pertains to the tax issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic in respect of cross-border workers. The main issue is the impact of the restriction in cross-border movements during the pandemic on the determination of the place of work. The authors refer to two situations. The first is when a Polish worker employed by a Polish employer and working abroad cannot return to Poland. The second is when he or she performs work at home in Poland instead of at the normal place of work abroad. The authors consider the legal fiction of carrying out work in the place where it would have been done before the pandemic as a rational solution. However, they are strongly critical of the introduction of such solution via the Mutual Agreement.

A survey-based approach used to analyse the indoor satisfaction and productivity level of user in smart working during lock-down due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Italy was the first country in Europe to enter lock-down due to COVID-19 pandemic. Most employees have been forced to adopt a work at home solution to avoid any possibility of spreading the virus. The article presents the results of a survey carried out in March-June 2020, during the first lockdown in Italy, aimed at investigating how people perceive the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) of their households during working from home. The questionnaire consists in a general section reporting information about participant, households and rooms where they perform the working activities; a specific section reporting feedbacks on each IEQ aspects (thermal, visual comfort, air and acoustic quality), overall comfort, productivity and other external variables that can affect users’ well-being during working hours. A total of 330 participants from all over the Italian territory signed the consent to participate in the survey over a period of about 3 months. The dataset was used to define the global level of satisfaction, perception, preference and interference with work at home, considering the main indoor environmental factors. The Machine Learning (ML) approach was applied to identify the most useful model to predict the overall comfort satisfaction.

The Impact of Working from Home During Pandemic Times on Employees Motivation in Romanian Insurance Companies

This article represents an analysis of the impact on employees of insurance companies in Romania, of the changes that occurred following the crisis generated by the Coronavirus pandemic. With the implementation of traffic restrictions in the spring of 2020 and the introduction of quarantine in Romania, companies were forced to resort to alternative means of conducting and continuing the activity in safe conditions for employees. The main change was the implementation of work at home, doubled by a strong progress of digitalization in the field. The orientation of companies towards the customer, the desire to offer the most complete services and the need to work as much as possible in the online environment, accelerated the digital transformation processes, offering a new perspective to both customers and employees who were able to experience a large number migrating to work from home. This article pays more attention to the analysis of the direct relationship between staff motivation in the case of work at home and the results obtained, with the final result - the sustainability of the organization's activity.

The Order of Organization and Registration of Remote Work of the Employee

This article discusses the features of the organization and design of remote work of an employee. The general provisions of registration of employees are defined. The forms of the necessary organization of interaction between the employee and the organization are described in the form of electronic document management with the use of an enhanced qualified electronic signature, an enhanced unqualified electronic signature, a simple electronic signature, as well as with the use of postal (courier) communication, depending on the types and forms of documents sent. The issues of ownership of the intellectual results of employees 'activities, as well as the possibility and legality of compensation of employees' expenses for necessary equipment and office supplies during work at home are considered. The rules of the organization of work of employees who are on remote work are defined.

Scrutinizing Civil Servants’ Integrity in The Midst of Covid-19 Pandemic: A Netnographic Method

ABSTRACTIntegrity is one competency that civil servants must have. In this Covid-19 pandemic, civil servants’ integrity becomes an observable focus. The Work from Home (WFH) system may highly change the way how they work at home. The research aims at scrutinizing integrity inferences of civil servants during the pandemic. WhatsApp, as an application used by them to communicate, has become a significant medium to observe the patterns. Netnography method is used to observe civil servants’ community behavior on social media. From the inferences observation, it is discovered that they have demonstrated forms of integrity, such as responsibility and professionalism. The civil servants are also getting more solid, helping, and relying on each other. When conflict occurs, they will retain the right principle. On the other hand, some would balance the situation. Consistency and discipline sensed from how civil servants perceiving all-online-formats. To sum up, performing online duties during Work from Home (WFH) has shown forms of integrity among civil servants. ABSTRAKIntegritas merupakan salah satu kompetensi yang harus dimiliki seorang ASN. Dalam situasi pandemi Covid-19, integritas ASN menjadi sebuah fokus yang patut diobservasi. Sistem Work from Home (WFH) mau tidak mau mengubah cara kerja seorang ASN ketika berada di rumah. Tujuan dari penelitian ini untuk mengamati inferensi integritas ASN selama pandemi. WhatsApp, sebagai aplikasi yang digunakan para ASN untuk berkomunikasi menjadi media yang signifikan dalam mengamati pola-pola integritas tersebut. Metode netnografi digunakan untuk mengamati perilaku komunitas ASN pada media sosial. Dalam pengamatan inferensinya, ditemukan bahwa ASN telah menunjukkan bentuk-bentuk integritas seperti, tanggungjawab dan profesionalisme. Para ASN juga semakin solid, saling membantu, dan mengandalkan satu sama lain. Setiap sebuah konflik terjadi, mereka akan mempertahankan prinsip yang benar. Di sisi lain, ada yang menyeimbangkan situasi. Konsistensi dan kedisiplinan juga terlihat dari bagaimana ASN memandang format serba daring. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa performa dalam menyelesaikan tugas-tugas daring menunjukkan berbagai bentuk integritas para ASN.