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title: "Pandemic and Telework: Opportunities and Challenges"
description: Enterprises can maximize the benefits and minimize the possible negative consequences of telework, by investing in the necessary technologies and equipment, data security, and the acquisition of relevant skills.
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# [Pandemic and Telework: Opportunities and Challenges](https://blog.alba.acg.edu/pandemic-and-telework-opportunities-and-challenges)

 Written by [Dionysis Dionysiou](https://blog.alba.acg.edu/author/dionysis-dionysiou) | 04 May 2021

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, employees and enterprises in our country were forced to shift to the mode of work known as “telework” or “remote working.” Although in some EU countries, like the Netherlands, Sweden and Finland, the percentage of employees who worked outsider their employers’ premises before the pandemic exceeded 30%, in our country the percentage was one of the lowest (5.3%)

 

 

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