The research aims to substantiate the assumption that during the period of changes caused by the negative impact of various crisis factors, the stability of the economic system can be supported by modern tools to increase the flexibility of the labor market, including digital technologies to ensure public access to online labor markets, new flexible forms of employment, and the formation of a professional retraining system. This research aims to study the specifics of the Russian labor market’s response to crisis phenomena and find effective tools to maintain employment for improving the adaptation of the economic system to changes. The authors assessed the negative consequences of the pandemic. The article substantiates the advantages of the tools of three tools that contribute to the adaptation of the Russian labor market to the ongoing changes: expanding public access to the national and global online employment market; self-employment of the population as a new institutional form of entrepreneurial activity of the population in Russia; an effective system of professional retraining. The authors justified the advantages of online employment to increase the flexibility of the labor market. The article defines the effects of self-employment of the population on the economy and social sphere. It is proved that the emerging imbalances in the demand for specialists in the context of changes can be offset by an effective system of professional retraining.