THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE
INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES WORKING,
AS AN EFFECT OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC,
IN THE TELEWORK REGIME IN ROMANIA Cover Image

THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES WORKING, AS AN EFFECT OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC, IN THE TELEWORK REGIME IN ROMANIA
THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES WORKING, AS AN EFFECT OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC, IN THE TELEWORK REGIME IN ROMANIA

Author(s): Dan Ţop
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Published by: Editura Bibliotheca
Keywords: coronavirus pandemic; telework; digitization;

Summary/Abstract: The coronavirus pandemic accelerated the transition to online by 5 years.Although the IT industry has exploded in the last 20 years, Romania is still at the bottom of theEuropean ranking on digitization, ranking 26th out of 28 countries. In Romania only in 2020 theRomanian Digitization Authority (ADR) was established. and a ministry of research anddigitization has been set up and some interesting provisions appear in the government program,such as the introduction of informatics in primary classes. Statistics show that only 9.2 percentof jobs with earnings below the average wage in the economy could be done in telework. It isnow more difficult to assume that there will ever be a return to normalcy, especially since therestrictive measures imposed over a longer period of time lead to changes in human behaviorin such a way that it is impossible to predict to what extent once. what the crisis

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 3 (52)
  • Page Range: 7-16
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English
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