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

Spurk, Daniel; Straub, Caroline (2020). Flexible employment relationships and careers in times of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 119, p. 103435. Elsevier 10.1016/j.jvb.2020.103435

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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.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	Business School > Institute for New Work > New Forms of Work and Organisation
Name:	Spurk, Daniel and Straub, Caroline
Publisher:	Elsevier
Language:	English
Submitter:	Caroline Straub
Date Deposited:	16 Sep 2020 14:42
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2021 02:18
Publisher DOI:	10.1016/j.jvb.2020.103435
Uncontrolled Keywords:	COVID-19, Crisis, Change, Flexible work arrangements, Gig work, Careers, Period effect, Corona
ARBOR DOI:	10.24451/arbor.12354
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/12354