The paper discusses the essence and features of telecommuting, communication costs and the problems of implementing compliance procedures to reduce the costs and risks. The paper’s aim is to analyze the risks with the introduction of telecommuting procedures in Russian and foreign companies in the period of lockdown caused by the new coronavirus infection COVID-19. Today, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a negative impact and create a critical situation in all spheres and industries, which causing destabilization of the economy and the labor market. One of the main recommendations of the World Health Organization is a physical distancing, limits of movements freedom, closure of some companies that are not vital, etc. Judging the above, the employer has to learn not only to carry out his activities, but also to survive in these conditions. This is the reason that many companies have to switch into the remote work process fully or partially as a temporary or alternative way of organizing work. The paper focuses on the directions and complexity of the tools choice for building connections between a workforce and management. Also, it analyzes the use of compliance to regulate communication relations, control communications and manage risks that arise from violations of the legislation, the regulations of regulators, the rules of self-regulatory organizations and internal documents. The authors compare a conception of compliance control, goals, processes, stages and effects of the use of the regulatory mechanism in the pandemic. Also, the authors give the respondents’ answers regarding the importance of compliance control, digital competencies for the high-quality performance of functions and communication at telecommuting. The results led to the conclusion that freelancing is not only a powerful incentive for changing employee’s behavior in conditions of uncertainty but also it brings an additional risk for all companies. Various digital monitoring tools aim to reflect the balance between security and personal freedom in the society infrastructure.

The article discusses the possible reasons for the growth of corruption in the context of a pandemic and current methods of struggle. The three most vulnerable areas of activity are identified: corruption in the field of public procurement (the healthcare system is considered in detail), bribery in the provision of services, and the development of small and mediumsized businesses at the present time. Also considered are some of the important indicators (the index of perception of corruption, the level of financial secrecy of the country, the index of the rule of law), reflecting the level, specificity and development of corruption in the country, and possible ways aimed at the effective work of anti-corruption policy. According to Transparency International’s analysis, corruption not only threatens the global fight against COVID‑19 but also contributes to an ongoing crisis of democracy. The foreign experience of the two countries is considered, based on which possible additions to the anti-corruption policy of Russia were proposed, the effective work of which is possible not only in a pandemic.

The article examines domestic and foreign experience in protecting human rights in the current epidemiological situation. The article is intended to contribute to a transdisciplinary dialogue on the formation of a stable position of states and the international community regarding the overarching task of maintaining human health and life support processes. It needs to focus on the crisis associated with COVID‑19, accumulating joint forces on resources to resolve it at a minimal cost. The meta-perspective of sustainability lies in a humanistic approach based not only on the control of a strategy, including mechanisms for containing and combating a pandemic, but also on the legal and ecological balance of human rights and freedoms, society and the environment a system-wide emergent property.