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Two and a half years into the COVID-19 pandemic, contractors have navigated numerous challenges facing their workforce. From creating new workspaces and practices to keep employees safe and secure, to adopting flexible and virtual work arrangements, to addressing the ever-present plague of “pandemic fatigue,” organizations continue to manage the changing landscape of the new reality.
As contractors settle into this “new normal,” it is also important that they remain vigilant to the ethical considerations and challenges that can arise in remote work environments, which are still relatively new to many companies.
The Pew Research Center recently reported that nearly 57 percent of the remote workforce either rarely or never worked from home prior to the coronavirus outbreak. With the reduction in daily connectivity to co-workers, supervisors and workplace resources — as well as the shift away from traditional methods of training, connecting and monitoring — the risk is greater than ever that employees could begin overlooking, or at the very least, become laxer in adhering to company ethics and compliance obligations and best practices.
Against this backdrop, here are some key areas for compliance attention and best practices for both contractor employees and employers when working in remote and virtual environments.
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