REMOTE WORK. PROS AND CONS
The text is about remote work analyzed mainly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic that took over the world in 2020 and is still ongoing, baffling by new mutations of this virus, and research on remote work in this context is in statu nascendi.
Abstract
The text is about remote work analyzed mainly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic that took over the world in 2020 and, what is worse, is still ongoing, baffling by new mutations of this virus. Hence, research on remote work in this context is in statu nascendi. Therefore, the reflection on this subject are presented here in a form of an essay, based mainly on hermeneutics, empirical data, but to a large extent also on intuition. Thanks to the research we can find out that an especially important issue is an analysis of remote work in the context of redundant work, bullshit jobs syndrome, but also in the context of – growing in the modern world – loneliness syndrome. Therefore, these issues are presented against the background of the explosion of remote work, characteristic of the pandemic year 2020, and taking into account technological basis for its development. In addition, the views of employees and employers on this topic are presented. According to these opinions, remote work, to a much greater extent than before the pandemic, will become permanent in practice. This is mainly due to economic, social and environmental values of remote work. They are analyzed, but at the same time the analyzes show that such work is not free from various manifestations of degeneration. Hence optimizing proportion between remote and non-remote work is of fundamental importance. This is a difficult challenge mostly (but not only) for economists. It requires interdisciplinary knowledge and a holistic and non-extrapolative approach.