Russia (bbabo.net), - For the most part, employees in the field of information technology, finance and insurance are working remotely. Viktor Lyashok, a senior researcher at the Institute for Social Analysis and Forecasting of the RANEPA, told Rossiyskaya Gazeta about this. According to him, in fact, only in these industries there has been a spread of remote work as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The expert did not rule out that in the coming weeks they will see an increase in remote workers, subject to the introduction of restrictive measures in the regions. According to a telephone survey conducted by the RANEPA's Institute for Social Analysis and Forecasting in December last year, about 15% of employees worked partly or completely from home.

From a survey conducted live on the Russia 24 TV channel, it follows that today more than 23% of employers have transferred their employees to remote work.

Employers themselves have different attitudes towards the remote work of their employees. In most cases, they note that the remote format is convenient for employees, since they do not need to spend money and time on the road to the office. According to the head of Take'N'Go fast courier delivery service Nikolai Hort, the remote mode did not affect the quality of work.

"Our remote employees are helped to keep in touch with each other by numerous chats in messengers," he says. There is no difference between the productivity of office and "home" colleagues, says Irina Stepanova, head of Logitech. According to her, practice has shown that the good work of a remote employee depends mainly on the general culture of interaction and project management within the company, as well as on the quality of the IT infrastructure. General Director of Trust Group BTL Gennady Akhmedov stressed that he has a bad attitude towards the remote format of work. "Our experience has shown that the format of remote work is very difficult for employees, both because of their personal qualities (self-organization, internal discipline and motivation), and because of the lack of opportunities to organize comfortable work outside the office. Not everyone has the necessary conditions , to focus on work tasks in the comfort of a private corner of their apartment.Our employees noted that household triggers such as children, TV, pets distract them from the work process," he said.

Fix Price notes that even in the first wave of the pandemic, they set up software that allows you to control the work of remote employees, but they believe that there are no metrics for a reliable assessment of work efficiency. “People can hold meetings on zoom and make important decisions, but no activity will be recorded in the system. Ideas that can bring companies multimillion-dollar profits also do not always depend on the number of computer mouse movements,” the director of personnel of the company Anton Maksimenko.

The press service of VK said that remote work had a beneficial effect on the efficiency of their colleagues.

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Labor, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Sverdlovsk and Novosibirsk regions are in the top regions for the spread of remote employment.

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