The distant work impact on the quality of working life: law aspects

¹ Department of Labor Law, Ural State Law University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
² Department of Labor and International Law, Perm State University, Perm, Russia

^* Corresponding author: shura_leva@mail.ru

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has made a tangible contribution to rethinking approaches to work organization. At the beginning of the pandemic the emergency transition to distant work was associated with a stressful situation. After a year we can talk about a change in attitudes towards this model of work. While some employers say a significant part of the staff is moving to distant work, others are giving it a combination of distant and office work. The aim of the article is to assess the impact of various types of distant work on the working life quality in order to identify legislation defects and find ways to minimize them. The authors draw conclusions about the impact of distant work on such indicators of the quality of working life as: working conditions at the workplace, the level of wages, creation by the employer of conditions for the development of the employee's personality, motivation to work and employee satisfaction with work. It was found that the impact of the distant work on the quality of working life could be both positive and negative; accordingly, there is a need for preventive norms that would be aimed at avoiding the negative beginnings of distant work.