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Work Performance and Flexibility – Opportunities and Risks
Work Performance and Flexibility – Opportunities and Risks

Author(s): Ioana Cristina Neagoe-Diniță
Subject(s): Law on Economics
Published by: Societatea de Stiinte Juridice si Administrative
Keywords: teleworking; agile working; rating; performance; working time; working pace; work life balance;
Summary/Abstract: Flexi working is by far the star of 2020 in the context of the pandemic and its effects. Working from home, teleworking, flextime are the pillars of the new paradigm of the labor market. Not only necessary, but vital for saving jobs, flexi work becomes a stepping stone to the relationship between employee and employer. Started as a solution to ensure work-life balance, flexi working has become a hidden enemy of the very balance it should support. It extended the work schedules all day long, imposed new working pace under the pressure of emergency state, took over the whole private life of the workers. The concepts of job sharing freelancing are no longer features of the future. Crisis flexi working undertakes our professional life, contributing to a precarious scent to classic working relationships. Between use and abuse, crisis flexi working pushes employers to see an increase in labor productivity under the ever-awaken eye of computers and IT applications, raising privacy issues. Office work is becoming a social El Dorado, while employers are shrinking offices and expanding them into our homes. With certain advantages and vulnerabilities.”The Future of Work is now” and gives opportunity to analyze it from a labor law, administrative and human resources perspective.

  • Page Range: 147-160
  • Page Count: 14
  • Publication Year: 2021
  • Language: English