Work-life balance is an indicator of satisfaction with human life as a whole and is becoming more relevant in socioeconomic conditions today. A balance between two important areas of human life can be achieved only with a high quality of working life, but it is now subject to serious fluctuations in conditions of active spread of remote forms of employment. The article deals with studying the state of work-life balance during the period of changes in the quality of working life due to the pandemic of «Covid-19» and the forced transition to remote work. In the theoretical part of the article the authors consider approaches to determining the main elements of the quality of working life and their indicators, identifying various aspects of the studying worklife balance. Labour quality indicators usually consider the ratio of working life to non-working life, but in this article the authors give evidence how the quality of working life can influence the achievement of work-life balance. In the practical part of the study, based on the author's survey, the main factors affecting the balance and quality of working life in the context of two-time intervals have been analyzed: before and after introducing of the self-isolation regime. The study has made it possible to determine changes in the work-life balance for different groups of employees due to changes in the main parameters of the quality of working life after the self-isolation regime was introduced and the transition to remote work occurred.