Remote work: the necessity of today
Date
2021
Authors
Abolina, Inese
Veselova, Andzela
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Publisher
University of Latvia
Abstract
Global pandemic COVID-19 has increased the level of digitalization which allows public and private sector organizations
in the world to employ people remotely outside office premises and crossing borders of the world. Remote work is one of the new
employment forms caused by the impact of digitalization, which keeps conquering and strengthening the positions on our daily professional lives.
It means extended use of different new employment forms, including the digital transition of administration processes and business management,
improvement of digital skills and competences, contributing to development of areas of services and products with higher benefit (Breaugh, Farabee,
2012). Research aims to study basic principles and tendencies of remote work organization based on theoretical aspects, draw conclusions and
elaborate proposals for improvement of remote work. In order to achieve the goal, the tasks are as follows: 1) provide the explanation of remote
work organization; 2) describe secondary data from a conducted survey by Milasi, S., Fernandez – Macias, E., Gonzalez-Vazquez, I. 2020, European
Commission; 3) conduct survey about remote work.
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public and private sector organizations , employee , remote work , Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES