Strategies for Adapting the IT Sector and its Employees to New Work Formats in 2020-2021 under the Influence of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Resistance and Acceptance of Employees and Employers

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a new daily routine. Due to quarantine and self-isolation, employers were forced to transfer their employees to remote work, and develop new strategies for adapting employees and work processes both while working from home and when going to offices. This led to the fact that employees were forced to develop mechanisms for adapting to the new realities built by employers. The focus of this work is on the strategies of employers' power and tactics of adaptation through adaptation and resistance of employees themselves. Based on 20 interviews with IT workers employed at the time of the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020 and up to the present, the narrative experience of informants regarding the mechanisms of adaptation to new working conditions, as well as the strategies of employers to build a new workspace was collected. Both work in a "remote" format from home and work in the office or in a hybrid mode of visiting the workplace were considered. During the analysis, two types of power strategies were identified: "motivating" and "limiting", as well as two types of tactics for adapting employees themselves, "resistance" and "adaptation" to a new everyday life.