Evolution, current situation,advantages, disadvantages and risks of telework in Spanish organisations

Abstract

This final degree thesis focuses on a working method that, despite its existence many decades ago, has recently had a high impact on companies that have had to use it almost compulsorily for their subsistence as a result of the confinement caused by COVID-19. Few businesses made use of remote work; in Spain, the predominant system is the onsite system. It will be explained what telework is roughly speaking, from its emergence and its creator to its evolution over the years. It will also be included the before, during and after confinement, where the real boom of its implementation took place up to the present day. Subsequently, the regulation of telework in Spanish law will be developed at a more specific level. This will be followed by a comparison of the degree of telework use between Spain and European countries, and the territorial differences within Spain itself. The positive impact of telework on the reduction of pollutant emissions in the environment, one of the most important concerns worldwide, will also be discussed. In addition, the benefits and consequences of remote work in the psychological and psychosocial spheres of society will be presented. It is considered that this way of working cannot be applied in all types of companies, the advantages and disadvantages that remote working brings to companies that have implemented it will be described, explaining how it works through the example of the consultancy firm DECLARANDO ASESORES 3.0 SL. And finally, with the impact of globalisation, digitalisation, new technologies, and the hypotheses that now exist for the future on the functioning of the market and social thinking, I will give my opinion, from my personal experience as a teleworker on whether there is a possibility that teleworking in a few decades will be a way of working in companies and normalised by society.