Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for IT Work

ABSTRACT

Some businesses gained from the COVID-19 pandemic, but the overall effect on demand for IT work is negative due to the recession. We may recover from it, once we can handle the medical problems, but some changes will probably stay. One of them is the shift from regular to temporary work in IT because businesses seek more flexibility. This should be accompanied by regulation that prohibits the worsening of work conditions of IT workers.

KEYWORDS:

• COVID-19
• IT
• online freelancing platforms
• freelancer
• crowdwork

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Notes on contributors

Paul Alpar

Paul Alpar is a Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Marburg. He is the (co-)author of about 80 refereed journal articles and five books. His articles have been published in J. of MIS, ISM, Int. J. of Research in Marketing, Int. J. of Electronic Commerce, IEEE, Trans. on Eng. Man., Decision Support Systems, Entrepreneurship – T&P, and many other outlets. He is an AE at EJIS and ISM.

Lars Osterbrink

Lars Osterbrink achieved his PhD at the chair for Business Administration and Information Systems at University of Marburg. His research interests are crowdwork and online freelancing. He published articles in Review of Marketing Science, the Proceedings of European Conf. on IS and the European Conference on Social Media.