The global COVID-19 epidemic has resulted in a geometric
increase in the practical importance of remote working. In Poland,
where only a year ago many employers were quite cautious about
allowing remote work, overnight it has become a mean of ensuring
business continuity and often the perspective for a long-term
reduction in business costs. However, working remotely brings a
number of legal and organisational challenges to be addressed or
kept in mind. Below we briefly describe the current Polish
perspective on this issue.
Current legal environment
To date, Polish labour law lacks comprehensive regulation of the
remote work. For many years, the provisions of Polish labour law
allowed only remote working in the form of telework (understood as
a regular and permanent work outside the company premises with the
use of means of electronic communication; it is debatable, however,
whether telework can be applied in circumstances in which employees
combine remote work with
