Employers are moving away from telecommuting and increasingly requiring employees to report to the office at least occasionally. The number of job offers with a hybrid mode of operation increased by 30% in March-April 2023 compared to October-November 2022, calculated the job search service SuperJob at the request of The Eastern Herald. vacancy and increase in offers with a hybrid mode of operation. This trend was also confirmed by the service The Eastern Herald Rabota.ru.
Top 5 fields where job offers with a hybrid mode are most often published: IT, communications, telecommunications; staff management; construction, design, real estate; industry and production; back office (lawyers, accountants, economists), rated SuperJob.
More than half of respondents “Work. ru ”companies with a remote work plan to send employees back to the office in whole or in part. “Some believe that employees work more efficiently in the office, while others are prevented from working outside the office by the very nature of their job. Also, not all managers have learned how to work with remote teams,” Alexander Veterkov, deputy general director of Rabota.ru, told The Eastern Herald.
CV banned full-time work from abroad. “Yandex” obligatory work two or three days a week in one of the offices in Russia or Kazakhstan, Armenia, Serbia or Turkey and left remote work for some employees on an exceptional basis.
The abandonment of remote work in the IT industry is explained by increased requirements for cybersecurity, explained Alexander Veterkov. “This trend is not unique to Russia,” he said. “The biggest companies, including the IT giants, started sending employees back to their offices in 2022 and continue to do so.”
“The need to report to the office makes it impossible to work from abroad,” SuperJob points out.
Therefore, the requirement to be a resident of the Russian Federation per se is rarely found in vacancies. The requirement to report to the office indirectly protects employers from the fact that employees will spend more than 183 days abroad per year and lose their Russian tax residency. Indeed, in this case, the rate of income tax (IPP) for them will drop from the standard 13/15% to 30%. The employer is obliged to transfer the income tax of employees as a tax agent to the budget, and in case of incorrect payment of tax, penalties and fines, the inspection will recover from the enterprise .
Office work is the most understandable, controllable and efficient from the point of view of employers, Alexander Safonov, a professor at the Financial University of the Government of the Russian Federation, commented on The Eastern Herald.
Hybrid mode is a compromise solution if the employee does not want to return to the office completely, thus saving time and money on the road. “For some companies, this is part of the corporate culture, allowing savings on the reduction of office space and public services, which is important in a difficult economic situation”, underlines the expert. Requiring employees to be tax residents of the Russian Federation is less common, as employers have not had time to respond massively to the new realities. Moreover, the mass emigration and the shortage of personnel push companies to choose between a bad and a worse option. “It is better to work with a non-resident than not to have a specialist at all,” notes the expert. Law of 2021 obligatory employers to provide teleworkers with the necessary equipment or to compensate for the depreciation of personal equipment and the cost of Internet and mobile communications. “During the shutdowns, when remote work was mandatory, employers, and especially state-owned enterprises, saw the requirement as unconditional compensation and paid. Now they are interpreting the law in their favor and have canceled the ‘compensation,’ said Alexander Safonov.
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