Digitalization Changing Work: Employees' View on the Benefits and Hindrances

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Abstract

The Digitalization of work may enable better use of knowledge, which is expected to result in enhanced productivity and efficiency. Different organizations adopt digital ways of working, products, services and processes in different ways and paces. The extent and pace of capitalizing digitalization’s potential in organizations has much to do with human attitude, ability to learn and the possibilities provided to use it in work. When looking digitalization from the employee viewpoint, it seems that the great expectations are not easily fulfilled. In fact, the effects of digitalization may be negative. This paper discusses the expectations and fears employees have towards digitalization changing their work. The issue is approached by using a qualitative data gathered along a survey. The aim was to find out if they see the effects digitalization has on their work as positive, negative, or something else, and which areas are highlighted.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation Technology and Systems - Proceedings of ICITS 2019
EditorsManolo Paredes, Carlos Ferrás, Álvaro Rocha
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages165-176
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)978-3-030-11889-1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Publication typeA4 Article in conference proceedings
EventICITS: International Conference on Information Technology & Systems -
Duration: 1 Jan 2019 → …

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume918
ISSN (Print)2194-5365

Conference

ConferenceICITS: International Conference on Information Technology & Systems
Period1/01/19 → …

Keywords

  • Benefits
  • Digitalization
  • Digitalization of work
  • Employees
  • Hindrances

Publication forum classification

  • Publication forum level 1

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