Influence of modern socio-economic tendencies on the development of non-standard forms of employment

The article discusses the fundamental changes taking place in the economies of developed countries and affecting the transformation of labor markets since the middle of the last century, when many scientists have noted the onset of a new post-industrial era.

The article solves two interrelated tasks. The first is to identify determinism of the non-standard forms of employment emergence by the general laws of post-industrial economies development. As such interrelated patterns are highlighted and considered flow of labor from industry to services and high technology, reducing number of economic organizations personnel, organizations using flat adaptive structures to achieve functional and numerical flexibility, formation of organizational networks, increased labor mobility, decentralization of work in time and space through use of information and communication technologies, formation of e-economy. All this leads to release of labor force, changes content of labor activity, role of labor in human life and motivation of labor, contributing to development of employment’s non-standard forms, including opening new perspectives for self-employment of people.

The second task, solved in the article, is to analyze the characteristics of non-standard employment in modern Russia. As part of this task, the non-standard forms of employment are systematized in accordance with the Russian labor legislation, the place of non-standard employment in the employment system of Russians and its structure, its positive and negative aspects at the macro level, at the level of economic organizations and from the point of view of workers are defined. It was found that, despite overregulation of the Russian economy as a whole, many forms of non-standard employment fall out of sight of the Russian legislator. The structure of non-standard employment in Russia does not correspond to the development trends of the post-industrial economy, and a significant part of Russian non-standard employment is “in the shadow”. This requires development of a new employment policy that includes more effective mechanisms for interaction between the state, workers and employers.

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