the national program includes six Federal projects: “regulation of the digital environment”, “Information infrastructure”, “Personnel for the digital economy”, “Information security”, “Digital technologies” and “Digital governance”.
the Portal Odinnadtsatoi.the Russian Federation was created with the participation of a consortium of Russian companies, as soon as the first recommendation of the authorities for the isolation of citizens to prevent the spread of coronavirus. On his view, “RG” told the coordinator of the competence Center Oleg Podolsky.
Oleg A. than the portal can help small and medium businesses, those who have lost a job?
Oleg Podolsky: We want to support companies and their employees in terms of mass transfer to remote format. To participate in the project were invited companies with extensive business experience “on distance”. They have willingly shared to the portal by their regulations, internal regulations, instructions for setting up digital services and lifehacks psychological support for employees “on distance”. And still I discovered mass access to its training courses, previously available only to employees of those companies.
What courses are available?
Oleg Podolsky: Through the portal of Odinnadtsatoi.RF any company, regardless of size, can send their employees on courses in productive telecommuting from Rostelecom. Manage remote commands of their leaders will teach Sberbank. “Yandex” is divided into the portal recommendations for developers, and “Megaphone”- instructions for the effective translation online business processes with customers and partners. The portal has already gathered more than 120 best practices, services, and instructions from major Russian companies. With one of the recruitment portals we collect jobs for working remotely and implement a project to raise awareness about the opportunities for remote employment. According to our partner, the number of remote jobs in recent years has tripled.
what employers and employees see the pros and cons “udalenka”?
Oleg Podolsky: We interviewed more than 50 employers on the transition to “udalenka”. Best with remote work, managed companies, has long used this practice. Employers face difficulty in implementing it tools, normative regulation of remote working in compliance with legislation and to equip remote locations. For example, two very large companies said that they had to deliver to the homes of employees of the office chair, as not everyone has the house equipped for the work place. With regard to cooperation��of the ICA, then there is a crisis of socialization. People had to grow up very quickly in the current environment requires a special level of self-awareness, planning, self-organization, now it is impossible to drift, you need to adapt to the new conditions.
the effectiveness of an employee depends on the employer. Many companies that have helped us to create the portal, take care of the psycho-physical condition of the employees and motivate teamwork not less than about its organization and efficiency. This online charging in the morning, and cooking a pause, and joint coffee breaks, and psychological support, there are even corporate podcasts for walks with the dog.
what do you think, will the structure of employment in the “distance” after the lifting of the measures related to the pandemic?
Oleg Podolsky: Recently, the famous economist Nassim Taleb predicted that for the sake of economy the business will continue to transfer employees to remote work, and the scope of training will massively go online. And when you do not will need to go into the office every day, people will start to leave cities and move to rural areas.
This is a reasonable assumption: remote-working for staff reduces costs, and in our country there are many digital solutions and services for its proper organization. Based on the experience of our communication with companies, I think that remote work from mass forced measures will become a popular trend, especially if the ground prepared in the normative aspects.
the Agency for strategic initiatives appealed to the government of the Russian Federation with a letter including introduces the partners of the competence Centre to create a favourable regulatory environment for the development of flexible labour relations and support to employers when staff in remote format.
Win whether the economy as a whole, if the structure of employment will change in favor of remote work?
Oleg Podolsky: major changes in the economy are inevitable, but many of them are just emerging. For example, our consumption becomes more digital, but now people have less money to purchase. However, these trends should provoke the emergence of relevant proposals from the business and should support the government to overcome regulatory barriers in the field of digital consumption. To speak of a mass transition of the population to remote employment too early. Changes in the structure of employment is of a temporary nature. But in the crisis on the labour market inevitably increases competition for jobs. For each person it is important to increase your own capitalization. And including the development of those skills and competencies (and possibly getting a new digital professions), which in terms of “distance” of the economy most sought after. So now not only important direct financial assistance from the state to individual companies and sectors, but program quick training and re-training people to work in new conditions. Tools for the development of mass digital literacy can be many, such as the portal Cyprobarometer.of the Russian Federation, to personal digital certificates from the state for free education digital professions. And they have already been launched in the framework of the National programme “Digital economy”.
