Refrigerator near, boss in chat: pros and cons of working at a remote location
If more people work from home, will cities, offices, and social circles change? Why remote employment is not only a convenience, but also a new social challenge.
Today, about 60 thousand Belarusians (and this is almost 1.5% of all workers) work at home. Three quarters are women. The average age is 40. Add another 53,000 people who work remotely and through various electronic platforms. In general, the entire population of Pinsk does not work in the office. And the trend is growing. Which professions are the easiest to transfer to remote? What are its advantages and disadvantages? And won’t it happen that in a dozen years you will go out and say hello to someone? About how Belarusians work outside the office - in the plot of ONT.
In the category of “remote workers” in the country today employs more than 33 thousand people. Both men and women prefer to work at a distance. Among them are “IT specialists”, scientists, trade and education specialists. And so that the employer did not have questions about where the employee disappeared, and the employee – why the boss writes after 18:00, a separate chapter appeared in the Labor Code.
Rights and duties can be prescribed by law, the working regime can also be. But what about the main temptation of removal? The refrigerator is within walking distance! And isolation from society. Nutritionists and psychologists sound the alarm.
Another trend of the new time, for those who are tight in the classic scheme of "work-house-work". Platforms! Your own boss, you choose the schedule, you decide when to get on the line. This is the perfect formula for freedom!
Today, more than 20,000 Belarusians have platform employment. And this job market has a male face. One wheel and delivery is not limited. On the platforms there are sellers of goods, the same IT specialists, teachers, lawyers, specialists in household services. However, if such a format is not to your liking, and the prospect of being a director, an accountant and a human resources department inspires yourself, there are many options.
From high technology to sweet strawberry bouquets. And no one will say, the future is over the office or remote? The right answer is that there is a choice.
