BEZPIECZEŃSTWO PRACY - MONTHLY (OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY)

NO 1/2017 JANUARY




  • Employers vs. employees – two points of view on teleworking
    Karolina Pawłowska-Cyprysiak, Katarzyna Hildt-Ciupińska, p. 9-11
  • Telework vs. family life – the art of setting boundaries
    Jacek Gądecki, Marcin Jewdokimow, Magdalena Żadkowska, p. 12-15
  • Preventing dysfunctionality in teleworking in the context of the teleworker
    Marek Makowiec, p. 16-19
  • Crowdsourcing – a particular form of teleworking
    Wioleta Klimaszewska, Alfred Brzozowski, p. 20-23
  • Information security in telework and telework security
    Mirosław Kwieciński, p. 24-26
  • Teleworking vs. employability at the modern labour market
    Sylwia Wiśniewska, Kamil Wiśniewski, p. 27-29
  • Humanizing and dehumanizing aspects of telework
    Bogusz Mikuła, p. 30-32
  • Telework – family-friendly employment?
    Dorota Głogosz, p. 32-35
  • Employers vs. employees – two points of view on teleworking
    Karolina Pawłowska-Cyprysiak, Katarzyna Hildt-Ciupińska

    Telework is considered to be a flexible form of employment and a one giving a broad spectrum of ways of providing telework and on the same hand, an excellent tool to jump-start those social groups that can be described as distanced from the labour market, handicapped persons for example. However, despite its usefulness telework does not seem to be frequently used by employers in Poland, even though they admit its advantages. The goal of the article is to show results of the research concerning the state of knowledge of employers and employees on telework as well as its various aspects. In order to provide such an assessment, Individual In-Depth Inteviews (IDI) were conducted among 36 employers and 20 employees, based on schemes prepared for that purpose. Results of these interviews allow a conclusion that telework is often mixed up with telemarketing meaning it’s supposedly performed via phone and based on reaching potential clientele. Only a handful of respondents described telework correctly, in accord to its real definition.



    Telework vs. family life – the art of setting boundaries
    Jacek Gądecki, Marcin Jewdokimow, Magdalena Żadkowska

    This article is based on partial results of ongoing in-depth ethnographic research. This research studies households in which at least one person telecommutes. In this article, we point to the impact of telework on private space and on the development of practices of everyday life. We present the consequences of a “return” of work to the home for both telecommuters and other members of their households. We describe the process of creating and maintaining boundaries between the private sphere and the sphere of work. In the opinion of both researchers and teleworkers, borders are essential to maintaining a balance between private and professional life for those working from home.



    Preventing dysfunctionality in teleworking in the context of the teleworker
    Marek Makowiec

    On basis of research, this paper discusses the impact of telecommuting on human and identifies dysfunctions, which occur during teleworking. The impact of telework on the domestic labour market has been shortly presented. Moreover, the article outlines the author’s methodology to identify difficulties and dysfunctions occurring in remote work, which can be used as practical tool for improving the organization of teleworking and eliminating any signs of dehumanization.



    Crowdsourcing – a particular form of teleworking
    Wioleta Klimaszewska, Alfred Brzozowski

    The labour market is constantly changing due to its relation to progress in technology as well as social modifications. New phenomenon appear, such as crowdsourcing thought in here as a way of acquiring and performing work with the use of internet platforms, work uberisation or co-working. New work forms involve benefits such as greater flexibility of labour market, easier access to service providers or lower costs of  economic activity. However, there are also threats in place, mainly physical and psychosocial, with the special focus on stress as an outcome of job insecurity. Just as well, crowdsourcing is an occurrence social and legal aspects of which have not yet been decided ultimately, therefore prone to generate problems to both service providers and receivers as well as to the state.



    Information security in telework and telework security
    Mirosław Kwieciński

    This article consists of two parts. The first one outlines the problems of information security in the context of telework. It presents an area of activity in whichexchanging information is possible, principal dangers of losing information, and ways of counteracting this, and possible safeguards. The second part covers the problems of broadly understood telework security. Like the first part, it presents principal threats and ways to counter them. 



    Teleworking vs. employability at the modern labour market
    Sylwia Wiśniewska, Kamil Wiśniewski

    The aim of this article is to indicate the importance of telework in the development of employability in the modern labour market. The study presents main challenges of the modern labour market. It shows definitional problems associated with the concept of employability and defines its various dimensions. It also explains the concept of the employee competencies and telework. Moreover, it underlines the importance of telework in the process of creation of employability in the modern labour market. The study reviews the subject literature, applying a descriptive method.



    Humanizing and dehumanizing aspects of telework
    Bogusz Mikuła

    The main aim of this article is to identify telework as a source of dehumanization with special focus on home telework. This article presents a research problem: is a company or another type of institution, in which all or part of its work organization relies on telework a healthy organization? The text characterizes the main elements of telework that negatively affect teleworkers and their families. The general conclusion is that in its present form home telework is not conducive to creating a healthy organization. This article offers some recommendations for humanizing telework. The main recommendation is that employers and their associations, workers and organizations protecting their rights, scientists, and teleworkers themselves should make every effort to civilize and humanize home telework and mixed forms of work organization, which include telework.



    Telework – family-friendly employment?
    Dorota Głogosz

    Numerous projects and programmes promote telework as a form of support for unemployed carers of dependent family members, especially children. However, not everyone can be a teleworker: some personality traits (self-discipline, loyalty, the ability to organize one’s own time and to be consistent) are essential. Telework interferes with family life; it has a negative effect on the functioning of the household. Long work hours and disproportionately low wages are sometimes the price that has to be paid. Telework is also associated with isolation in the work environment, which results in a lack of job satisfaction. Government programmes support telework for unemployed carers, but employers are reluctant to offer this form of employment. They fear that teleworkers will not be able to meet duties resulting from working without supervision, performed under the pressure of employers and family responsibilities.



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