Samhällsplanerarens förändrade arbetssituation under Covid-19 pandemin : En kvalitativ studie om hur Covid-19 pandemin har förändrat arbetssitutationen för samhällsplanerarna på Karlstads kommun och utmaningarna som uppstod.

Sammanfattning: The Covid-19 pandemic affected and threatened everything and everyone. Health and everyday life are two major aspects that were negatively affected during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our everyday routines such as work and education as well as our everyday relationships such as family relationships and friendships were transformed into virtual routines and relationships. Working from home was one of the most important restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic. This was used both to reduce the spread of the virus and to continue with everyday routines such as work. Although working from home facilitated these two factors, it was still not an advantage for us because from the advantages it also had different and strong disadvantages. Community planning is an important part of community development processes because it ensures the development and improvement of society based on human needs and wishes. Planning a society is not easy, therefore extra accuracy and quality are required. It is important for community planners to have quality-assured work and to increase the opportunity for citizens to influence plans that are presented. The quality of work and citizen participation were affected during the Covid-19 pandemic due to the work that was carried out digitally. The work situation for the community planners at Karlstad municipality was converted to remote work both to ensure health and to continue working regardless of the circumstances during the pandemic. The Covid-19 pandemic, which forced the community planners to conduct their work digitally, became a big reason why the planners experienced concrete challenges in their work. The challenges experienced by the community planners in their work later forced them to manage on their own.     Keywords: Covid-19 pandemic, teleworking, job quality, public participation and community planning