Bezpieczeństwo pracy zdalnej w oświacie w dobie pierwszej fali COVID-19 a konflikt ról zawodowych i rodzinnych - refleksje z badań

Abstract

Introduction. The research focuses on widely understood remote working safety during the first COVID-19 wave in the context of the assumed conflict of the professional and family roles of teachers. Issues related to this conflict of roles are of interest to the sociology of work and the sociology of family; hence in the conducted research they are analysed from these two perspectives. Purpose. The purpose of the article is to describe fundamental ways of perceiving the remote working safety of teachers in terms of their age and difficulties encountered by them in fulfilling their professional and family roles, on the basis of the sociological research conducted in Łódź province. Research materials and methods. Research materials included material from qualitative sociological research concerning changes in organisation of work in various areas of the Polish economy during the first COVID-19 wave i.e., for six months starting in March 2020, in Łódź province. Research findings. The research has confirmed the conflict of professional and family roles in the analysed group of teachers, but that it had a bigger impact on those younger research participants having children. Teachers aged 51+ described their remote working more positively in comparison to younger teachers participating in the research. Recommendations resulting from the research indicate predominantly indicate challenges related to increasing broadly understood work safety along with economic safety, workspace, and hygiene safety in remote working, as well as time management, and managerial support.