Advanced Distance Employment as a Trend: Problems, Solutions, Prospects

The object of the research is the modern domestic labor market. The aim of the work is to determine the prospects for distance employment considering overcoming potential risks and threats. The methods employed are statistical analysis, analysis of scientific literature, analysis of the results of sociological research and Internet sources. The study result shows the change in the structure of employment due to emerging and fast distribution of its non-standard forms, specific to the information and post-industrial society. The authors proved that this process has both pronounced positive consequences (first of all, an increase in employment efficiency) and negative (instability of employment, precarization of the able-bodied economically active population, etc.). The authors highlight the current features of the modern Russian labor market, which determine distributing of distance employment and show that advanced distance employment is based on a simultaneous change in communication technologies and motivations of professional and labor behavior of the population. The conclusion is that the development of distance employment is determined by a complex of factors, including not only technological, but also economic, social, psychological, institutional ones. To expand distance employment, both objective (state of the economy) and subjective (attitude of employers) prerequisites. The study results may be of use for managing labor resources and the labor market in general, considering overcoming potential risks and threats, as well as based on the most promising forms of employment in modern conditions.