Remote Work in a Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities for Business and Personnel

Abstract

The temporary remote operation has become widespread in domestic organiza-tions due to the difficult epidemiological situation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The article analyzes the practice of transferring employees to a temporary remote operation of enterprises during a pandemic. Research methods: problem interview, as well as con-tent analysis of scientific literature and media publications. The problems that arise when employees are transferred to a temporary remote operation, as well as the opportunities that open up when using this mode of operation are identified. Differentiated understanding of the problems and opportunities of remote work from the perspective of employers and employees. The most significant problems of using the temporary re-mote operation are grouped according to their content, four groups of problems are sin-gled out: organizational and managerial problems, resource provision problems, psycho-logical and Internet administration problems; their comparative significance is deter-mined. The necessity of developing a complex of organizational and managerial measures to ensure the effective functioning of the temporary remote operation has been proved.