Working in public administration during nonwork time during the COVID-19 pandemic

Mar, Špela (author), Buzeti, Jernej (author)

With the outbreak of Covid-19, a pandemic was declared in March 2020 and countries introduced various measures to overcome it. As a result, employees worked more intensively from home with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), which significantly affected the way of work, the length of the working day, and the time reserved for rest. The purpose of this article is to examine whether, during the pandemic, public employees in the Slovenian public administration worked during nonwork time. This is the first research of this kind in the Slovenian public administration. The research applied the quantitative method and an online questionnaire conducted in February 2021, whereby data from 1676 public administration employees were obtained. The results of the research show that at the time of the Covid-19 pandemic, 80% of the respondents performed work during nonwork time. In fact, public employees quite often worked late in the afternoon after working hours and on weekends. Interestingly, about 10% of public employees even worked during annual leave and sick leave. The results of the research contribute to theoretical and practical knowledge about work related activities during nonwork time.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Covid-19, information and communication technology (ICT), public administration, public employees, work during nonwork time, work from home
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FU - Faculty of Administration
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 223-242
• Numbering: Vol. 19, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-128554
• UDC: 35:616.9:331.31
• ISSN on article: 2591-2240
• DOI: 10.17573/cepar.2021.1.10
• COBISS.SI-ID: 65251587

Note

Povzetek v slov. jeziku se nahaja na koncu revije, na str. 287-288.

• Publication date in RUL: 19.07.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Central European public administration review
• Publisher: Fakulteta za upravo
• ISSN: 2591-2240
• COBISS.SI-ID: 293849600

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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• Licensing start date: 07.05.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Delo v javni upravi izven rednega delovnega časa med pandemijo covida-19

Abstract

Z izbruhom covida-19 je bila marca 2020 razglašena pandemija in države so uvedle različne ukrepe za njeno premagovanje. Posledično so zaposleni intenzivneje delali od doma s pomočjo informacijskih in komunikacijskih tehnologij (IKT), kar je pomembno vplivalo na način dela, dolžino delovnika in čas, namenjen počitku. Namen tega članka je ugotoviti, ali so v obdobju pandemije javni uslužbenci v slovenski javni upravi delali izven rednega delovnega časa. To je prva tovrstna raziskava v slovenski javni upravi. Uporabljena sta bila kvantitativna metoda in spletni vprašalnik, izveden februarja 2021, s katerim so bili pridobljeni podatki 1676 zaposlenih v javni upravi. Rezultati raziskave kažejo, da je v času pandemije 80 odstotkov anketirancev opravljalo svoje delo izven rednega delovnega časa. Javni uslužbenci so precej pogosto delali pozno popoldne, torej po koncu delovnika, pa tudi ob koncih tedna. Zanimivo je tudi dejstvo, da je približno 10 odstotkov javnih uslužbencev delalo celo v času letnega dopusta in bolniškega staleža. Rezultati raziskave prispevajo k teoretičnemu in praktičnemu znanju o delovni dejavnosti izven rednega delovnega časa.

• Keywords: covid-19, informacijska in komunikacijska tehnologija (IKT), javna uprava, javni uslužbenci, delo izven rednega delovnega časa, delo od doma