Social Responsibility of Ukrainian Business in the Conditions of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Foreign and Domestic Practice

The authors prove in the article that socially responsible activity of enterprises in the current conditions is considered as an example of solidarity of business and society to help save lives, and will help raise living standards of Ukrainians, in particular, providing decent working conditions and wages, improving health care, reducing the negative impact on the environment. The article analyzes that due to the spread of COVID-19, companies around the world are counting losses, and governments are developing anti-crisis measures for national economies. It is highlighted that in Ukraine, a new significant expansion of the set of measures to the existing list may lead to the loss of millions of jobs and significant losses of budgets at various levels. Entrepreneurs have been shown to be responsible for the well-being of millions of our employees and are also looking for possible ways to prevent businesses from shutting down to avoid more serious consequences and leave a large part of the country's population without livelihoods. Thus, for Ukraine in the system of such methods it is important to focus on the synergistic effect of the implementation of socially responsible business, state and human relations during the introduction of quarantine measures and the spread of socially responsible activities at the macro and micro levels.