Research Article

WORK FROM HOME-CHALLENGES IN THE PERIOD OF GLOBAL PANDEMIC

ABSTRACT

Labor Laws regulate that the employee and the employer can conclude an employment contract by doing work at home. The global pandemic imposed new questions and challenges for the realization of this agreement with the lack of extensive experience from previous years, with the exception of certain sectors and activities. After several months of working from home, the companies lack an assessment of the real weight in performing work tasks from home, as well as taking measures to protect the mental and physical health of workers. In this regard, necessary changes or adoption of new laws that would regulate in detail the rights and obligations of workers and employers to perform the work process from home is needed. Some countries like Chile adopted new laws on working from home. This article will analyze the legal changes that should regulate the issue of measuring employee productivity, mechanisms for maintaining motivation, real opportunities to do work from home, protection from domestic violence, data protection, protection of physical and mental health of workers and other important questions that arise as a result of the global pandemic.

Keywords

work from home global pandemic future challenges workers employers protection productivity