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Potentially affecting the public sector
“During the quarantine, workers who do not have to go to work to work work remotely,” read an instruction related to teleworking that sounded from the authorities some time ago.
While it was primarily applied to public sector employees at the time, it was also recommended to the private sector to work remotely.
However, according to 2021. June 1 Workers vaccinated with COVID-19, infected with COVID-19 or negative were able to return to their workplaces and employees.
Today, with coronavirus cases on the rise again and more than 1,000 increasing each day, there are again signs of potential telecommuting-related limitations.
The cabinet intends to decide this week whether to reintroduce quarantine in the country, as well as to impose stricter restrictions on the use of masks and teleworking.
Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys explained to the media that the Ministry would consult epidemiologists about teleworking.
„[Pasitarsime] if we should not offer, let’s say, telecommuting in the public sector, evaluating the general epidemiological situation ”, said A. Dulkys.
At the request of the Ministry of Health, the latest teleworking plans were answered only to the extent that the public was informed about the latest decisions.
Arūnas Dulkys
Proposes a mixed nature of work
Virologist Saulius Čaplinskas, when asked by Delfi whether Lithuania should not return to teleworking as the number of infections increases, said that he thought such a strict decision should not be made yet.
“COVID has already changed our society and it has irreversibly changed it. There have been many innovations and innovations in addition to working remotely.
Remote work has already been consolidated and will continue. I think now work that can work in offices or remotely should be mixed. But here we must remember both the regulation of the flows and the ventilation of the premises, disinfection, various protection measures, ”he said.
According to him, for the moment, the instruction for everyone to return to work at home is certainly not necessary, but the form of work for which it is possible should not be forgotten either.
Saulius Čaplinskas
“The second, if a person only suspects that he has a cold, there is a fever, he should stay home, protect others,” urged the virologist so as not to forget the most important thing.
Employers: there will be no benefits
Danas Arlauskas, president of the Lithuanian Employers’ Confederation, said he did not believe that working from home would reduce the number of infections.
“I don’t think there is anything special here, because in a year and a half people have adapted and applied a hybrid working method, working from home some days, others from offices. But my question would be: what does that instruction point to? Reduce the number of infections?
Danas Arlauskas
I don’t think it helps much. I myself told the Prime Minister that until the test is free, for state money, no one will be vaccinated, ”said D. Arlauskas.
“I don’t think it’s just because they need to do something, but I don’t think teleworking reduces morbidity a bit, so I don’t see much sense in that, because there is only one way to reduce the number of infections – for everyone to get vaccinated. “Said”.
He’s back in the offices, and the new ruling could cause damage.
Mindaugas Statulevičius, director of the Lithuanian Real Estate Development Association (LNTPA), said that today most people have already returned to their offices.
“Most of the people have come back. Of course there are some changes in the offices, people may be working shifts,” he said.
Speaking about the public sector and the possible obligation to work from home, the spokesperson said he also saw a number of fears here.
“When work from home was introduced, many institutions weren’t ready for it, employees didn’t have computers, cell phones, phones weren’t routed to their cell phones.
Getting to the officer was very difficult at the time, and it took about half a year before the processes were in sync. I would not much like to go back to a time when the public sector worked completely remotely.
Mindaugas Statulevičius
It is possible to speculate if it would be ready again, “said M. Statulevičius.
He said a forced obligation to work remotely could do more harm.
“We need to see if chimneys are actually forming in the offices,” he said.
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