ABSTRACT
A global pandemic affected the type and place of work in several ways. For coworking places it caused disruptions according to direct (e.g. measures) and indirect (e.g. urban outmigration) reasons. The present chapter focuses on how coworking places in Hungary choose different adaptation strategies to deal with the unprecedented challenge that COVID-19 accounted for. It gives insight into the Hungarian pandemic situation between 2020 and 2022, identifying restrictions and no state financial aid whatsoever which determined the playing field for coworking places. The chapter contains different sections related to the outbreak and the Hungarian coworking landscape as well as coping strategies these alternative workspaces relied on to survive the first two years of the pandemic: location change, size reduction, change of function, and relying on informal networks are the identified ones. © 2023, The Author(s).
ABSTRACT
Worldwide all mobility segments declined significantly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, from the local traffic to the inter-continental one. The scope of the study is the analysis of the domestic rideshare-traffic during the first two waves of the pandemic. The author scaled within ten three-day intervals the booked places on the most popular route (Miskolc-Budapest) of the base period on the largest domestic rideshare platform (Oszkar.com). The paper examines the effects of the pandemic related restrictions on mobility, both in time and regionally. According to the results, the second wave affected the country more severely regarding the number of those infected and those deceased, still ridesharing declined in a higher degree during the first wave compared to the base period, as a result of the timely differences of the restrictions, the almost complete stoppage of the economy in spring 2020, as well as the prolonged presence of the virus, suggesting that the initial, shock-like effects of the COVID-19 pandemic force the society to a longer period of adaptation. © 2021