Author(s): Ellada Atsiyeva, Svetlana Zharkenova
The aim of this study is to know experience and attitudes of both employers and employees to online employability during the coronavirus crisis and related problems to legislative regulations of such format of working. The study conducted a survey among 115 Kazakhstani employees and employers and the results show that employees have more negative experience and attitudes of online employability. Such situation is mainly due to the presence of organizational problems of online employability, as well as a number of negative psychological factors (most of which were the result of the forced isolation regime). As for employers, the main problems associated with the business processes that allow maintaining the quality of communications and labor efficiency, ensuring the information security and issues of legal regulation of this type of employability. However, the introduction of an online format of work allowed many organizations to survive in the market, both due to the ability not to completely stop their work during the quarantine period, and by reducing a certain share of costs. In addition to interview, this study grouped of respondents (both employers and employees) into four categories including the generations of Y or Millenniums (born between 1985 and 2002), X (born between 1964 and 1984), BB or Baby Boomers (born between 1944 and 1963), and the Silent generation (older than 1943). The result of such groping revealed that both employers and employees of generations of Y and X had the sufficiency of their digital skills and ability to work online, while the generations BB and Silent experienced some difficulties in working online. In terms of legislative regulations, as practice has shown, at present, the Labor Code does not sufficiently reflect the real issues of regulation of online labor relations. In particular, the concepts of online employability, as well as the possible forms of its organization and conflicts of interests require clarification.