Teleworking in Ecuador

Abstract

Teleworking is a phenomenon that has become globalized and is emerging with greater force due to the pandemic caused by COVID-19; brings with it the use of technologies and an almost total immersion in the digital world, so that the current needs of work have bordered unimaginable levels of development of information and communication technologies, considered today as new forms of organization of the work and as primary tools to perform functions entrusted under a dependency relationship, which do not merit the presence of the worker, but are carried out in the home or another place outside the usual one. Objectives: Its objective is to determine the scope of legal protection that prevents or avoids long periods of digital connection, generating psychosocial risks that affect the physical, mental or emotional health of workers. Teleworking could violate human rights such as digital disconnection, time off and enjoying vacations. Methodology: For this, the historical-descriptive research method was used, of a documentary type of bibliographic review, in which the internal and international legislation on normative reforms regarding teleworking and the right to disconnection as fundamental axes in labor matters is described. Contributions: Telework generates a number of positive and negative contributions to society, therefore, it is important that the current legal regulations related to the subject be analyzed from a descriptive point of view that generates knowledge to workers, companies and about everything is avoided the repercussions of an inadequate treatment to this type of work.