The COVID-19 pandemic represents a crisis that affects several aspects of people's lives around the globe. Most of the affected countries took several measures, like lockdowns, business shutdowns, hygiene regulations, social distancing, school and university closings, or mobility tracking as a means of slowing down the distribution of COVID-19. These measures are expected to show short-term and long-term effects on people's working lives. However, most media reports focused on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on changes in work arrangements (e.g., short-time work, flexible location and hours) for workers in a regular employment relationship. We here focus on workers in flexible employment relationships (e.g. temporary agency work and other forms of subcontracted labor, as well as new forms of working, such as in the gig economy). Specifically, we will discuss (a) how the work and careers of individuals in flexible employment relationships might get affected by the COVID-19 pandemic; (b) outline ideas how to examine period effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the work and careers of those individuals, and (c) outline how the pandemic can contribute to the ramification of flexible employment relationships.

COVID-19 大流行代表了一场影响全球人们生活的多个方面的危机。大多数受影响国家采取了多项措施，例如封锁、企业停工、卫生规定、社交距离、学校和大学关闭或流动性跟踪，作为减缓 COVID-19 传播的手段。这些措施预计将对人们的工作生活产生短期和长期影响。然而，大多数媒体报道的重点是COVID-19大流行对正常雇佣关系工人的工作安排变化（例如短时工作、灵活的地点和时间）的影响。我们在这里重点关注灵活雇佣关系中的工人（例如临时代理工作和其他形式的分包劳工，以及新的工作形式，例如零工经济）。具体来说，我们将讨论 (a) 灵活雇佣关系中的个人的工作和职业可能如何受到 COVID-19 大流行的影响； (b) 概述如何检查 COVID-19 大流行对这些人的工作和职业的阶段性影响的想法，以及 (c) 概述大流行如何促进灵活雇佣关系的影响。