Flexible employment relationships and careers in times of the COVID-19 pandemic

By Daniel Spurk, C. Straub. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2020

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The COVID-19 pandemic represents a crisis that affects several aspects of people's lives around the globe. Most of the affected countries took several measures, like lockdowns, business shutdowns, hygiene regulations, social distancing, school and university closings, or mobility tracking as a means of slowing down the distribution of COVID-19. These measures are expected to show short-term and long-term effects on people's working lives. However, most media reports focused on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on changes in work arrangements (e.g., short-time work, flexible location and hours) for workers in a regular employment relationship. We here focus on workers in flexible employment relationships (e.g. temporary agency work and other forms of subcontracted labor, as well as new forms of working, such as in the gig economy). Specifically, we will discuss (a) how the work and careers of individuals in flexible employment relationships might get affected by the COVID-19 pandemic; (b) outline ideas how to examine period effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the work and careers of those individuals, and (c) outline how the pandemic can contribute to the ramification of flexible employment relationships.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Pandemics: Implications for research and practice in industrial and organizational psychology (2020, background): “As a consequence, HR departments should allow as much leeway as possible in terms of work and time arrangements for white-collar employees in the current situation (see also Spurk & Straub, 2020).”
Quantifying the Invisible Labor in Crowd Work (2021, background): “In addition, post-COVID-19, there will likely be a large increase in people who need to work from home, whether that is for safety reasons or because of the massive number of worldwide layoffs [29, 31, 104].”