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AbstractAssociate professor emeritus Peter Nielsen, Post. Doc. Jeevitha Yogachandiran Qvist, Professor Lars L. Andersen, Post. Doc. Jonas Vinstrup, Senior Researcher Emil Sundstrup, Senior Researcher, Karen Albertsen, Professor Per H. Jensen.
In the spring of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic led to rapid closure and behavioral restrictions, the most comprehensive natural experiment in practical emergency management that Danish firms and employees have ever launched began. Especially for senior employees, the situation seemed to imply a double challenge: Older people are more likely to become seriously ill from COVID-19, and secondly, emergency management places great demands on the transition to new work conditions and situations. This article examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on firm’s emergency management and the implications for the working lives of senior employees, including their well-being, changes in working conditions and considerations of retiring from the labor market because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
First, the firm’s emergency management during COVID-19 is analyzed. We start out by examining the association between the firms’ financial situation and their COVID-19 emergency management, i.e. their use of government subsidy schemes, the amount of employee homework and the dismissals due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We hypothesize that the firms’ COVID-19 emergency management only to a minor extent is explained by the firm’s financial situation but rather they are determined by other factors such as the nature of the core task and the proportion of seniors in the firms.
Next, the article provides an overview and analysis of the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on the working lives of senior employees. From the senior employee perspective, the focus is placed on the well-being of different groups of seniors during the COVID-19 restrictions. As indicators of well-being, we use the senior employees’ concern about their health, possible dismissal, and stress. We also focus on the importance of the Covid-19 pandemic for the senior employees’ withdrawal considerations. Finally, we look at the extent of homework for senior employees. Our hypothesis is that seniors' well-being and the extent of homework are related to their work function, human contact, and general health situation.
The empirical analysis is based on the employer- and employee survey from the SeniorWorkingLife Study, which are two large nationwide surveys collected from summer 2020 to spring 2021. Thus, both datasets have been collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both are to be linked to Danish register data. While the data collection for the employee survey has been completed and contains answers from 13,000 seniors aged 50 and up, the employer survey's data collection will be completed in mid- March 2021. This survey contains responses from approximately 5,000 Danish firms.
| Periode | 19 aug. 2021 |
|---|---|
| Begivenhedstitel | WORK2021: Work Beyond Crises |
| Begivenhedstype | Konference |
| Placering | Turku, FinlandVis på kort |
| Grad af anerkendelse | International |