Abstract
This study analyses teleworking and online opportunities in the realm of state-community resilience building to enable third-country nationals (TCNs) work protection in Austria, Finland, and the Czech Republic and what is the implication to immigrants. Existing research pointed the year 2020 has brought unprecedented changes to the global economy and the world of work with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This has urged governments to implement drastic lockdown policy measures where organizations and managers with (un)familiar teleworking experiences send their employees home to be teleworking. Teleworking emphasizes the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs), such as smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktop computers, for work that is performed outside the employer's premises.
In other words, teleworking implies work achieved with the help of ICTs and conducted outside the employer's location. Within the European Union, there is the incidence of regular or occasional teleworking (home-based telework and mobile telework combined) (ILO, 2020) underpin in the state-community resilience building governance to keep the organization operational and sustain employees' wellbeing in the COVID-19 pandemic era but entails isolation risks and loss of contacts challenges.
Although teleworking ensures flexibility and business continuity in the COVID-19 pandemic crisis-related era, until now, it remains unclear why there is still little investigation in European Union countries explaining teleworking and online opportunities in the COVID-19 pandemic resilience building era to interpret third-country nationals work protection. Based on a qualitative cross-national case-oriented research approach with fewer-country comparisons, documents and scholastic texts are collected and analysed through a document and thematic content analysis technique to fill in this gap.
The findings show that government-issued stay home order, physical distance, enhancing trust and open communication regulatory devices are a major perceived influence in state-community relational governance with a lack of transparency that may impair the level of trust when looking at issues such as the employment-related transition of third-country nationals and socio-economically disadvantaged groups in state-community teleworking and online opportunities governance setting. The study demonstrated certain new kinds of management and multi-actor governance similarities but dissimilarities from the country's institutional context.
The outcome points to a regulatory administrative device to target employers and employees' physical distancing for trusting, results- based brand-new working ways and steer young third-country nationals for paid work in the COVID- 19 pandemic resilience-building era. This is relevant to performance monitoring in contemporary neoliberal conditional society targeting labour market performance and individual responsibilities for scarce resources allocation that may not only constraint high-risk and vulnerable groups' well-being and /or belongs but jeopardize economic prosperity, a cohesive society, and open democratic values.