The Virtual Workplace: Public Health, Efficiency, and Opportunity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108718028)

The recent pandemic has clarified the overwhelming connection between the workplace and technology. With thousands of employees suddenly forced to work at home, a large segment of the workforce quickly received crash courses in videoconferencing and other technologies, and society as a whole took a step back to redefine what employment actually means. The virtual workplace is the blending of brick-and-mortar physical places of business with the advanced technologies that now make it possible for workers to perform their duties outside of the office. Trying to regulate in this area requires the application of decades old employment laws to a context never even contemplated by the legislatures that wrote those rules. This book explores the emerging issues of virtual work--defining employment, litigating claims, aggregating cases, unionizing workers, and preventing harassment--and provides clarity to these areas, synthesizing the current case law, statutory rules, and academic literature to provide guidance to workers and companies operating in the technology sector.

Author: Joseph A. Seiner
ISBN-10: 1108718027
ISBN-13: 9781108718028
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/17/2021
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d