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EVALUATION OF COUNTRIES FOR VIRTUAL WORKING
Mahsa Bakmoradi, Juozas Merkevičius

Last modified: 2022-10-26

Abstract


In the last decade the relevance of virtual working and the percentage of jobs done remotely has indeed appreciatedin European countries. Remote work is a new feasible solution for the large and small scale companies, they intend their employees to work from a distance location. This solution, perhaps, will stay for the foreseeable future within organizations. The statistical data which is collected from Eurostat shows that distance working has made connection between employees from EU countries seamless, however, some countries are still not fully focused on virtual working. The obtained data presents that virtual working percentage during last five years has enabled the author ofthis paper to have a comparative analysis in terms of how each country utilize remote working. Afterward, the resultof analysis presented and discussed. The main purpose of this article is to evaluate the countries that fully engage inthe optimization of virtual working, the method to be used in this research are literature analysis and TOPSIS method. This article also shows that virtual working is becoming essential part of people’s lifestyle in the near future, and most employees and employer will prefer it to any other forms of working.


Keywords


virtual work; TOPSIS method; labour markets; remote work.

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