The main function of hierarchies is to coordinate activities within an organisation, but a hierarchical structure also provides work incentives, by offering the prospect of hierarchical mobility. An alternative way for organisations to motivate workers is through job design. In organisations...

Using data from the US Postal Service and Zillow, we quantify the effect of Covid-19 on migration patterns and real estate markets within and across US cities. We find two key results. First, within large US cities, households, businesses, and real estate demand have moved from dense central...

The ‘gig economy’ refers to a market system in which companies or individual requesters hire workers to perform short assignments. These transactions are mediated through online labour platforms, either outsourcing work to a geographically dispersed crowd or allocating work to individuals in...

Homeoffice hat sich pandemiebedingt von heute auf morgen zum Arbeitsalltag vieler Beschäftigter entwickelt. Sofern arbeitsorganisatorisch möglich, galt es in vielen Bereichen der Arbeitswelt als naheliegender Ansatz der Pandemiebewältigung. Wie aber können wir die vielfältigen Erfahrungen...

A new research stream emerged in the 2000s dedicated to flexible work arrangements in public and private organizations, called "new ways of working" (NWW). This article aims to examine NWW from both a theoretical and empirical perspective, focusing on definitional issues as well as on HR...

Die nachfolgende Zusammenfassung der Studie "Nutzerpräferenzen von Coworking Spaces" zeigt die Bedeutung von Flexible Office Space auf und arbeitet präferierte Charakteristiken und Attribute der flexiblen Arbeitsplätze heraus. Die Ergebnisse wurden über eine empirische Befragung in deutschen...

Using large, geographically representative surveys from the US and UK, we document variation in the percentage of tasks workers can do from home. We highlight three dimensions of heterogeneity that have previously been neglected. First, the share of tasks that can be done from home varies...

Welche Herausforderungen und Handlungsmöglichkeiten bestehen bei Systemen zur Arbeitszeiterfassung und ihrer Einbettung in der betrieblichen Praxis? Wo gibt es juristische und datenschutzrechtliche Schwachstellen? Diese Fragen stellen sich gerade bei mobiler Arbeit - und nach dem Urteil des...

Although the common perception is that the pandemic is "the great equaliser", workers’ tasks, contractual framework and position in the internal organisational hierarchy strongly affect their ability to work remotely.

The coronavirus is severely disrupting labour markets. Businesses that rely on face-to-face communication or close physical proximity between co-workers and with customers are particularly vulnerable. While interventions such as occupational social distancing and remote working have become...

The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of "social distancing" policies around the world have raised the question of how many jobs can be done at home. This paper uses skills surveys from 53 countries at varying levels of economic development to estimate jobs' amenability to working from home....

Employers currently encounter more and more members of Generation Z - who finished their school as well as university education - without knowing exactly what this generation wishes and needs. This paper verifies current assumptions about Generation Z with a quantitative study in Germany,...

Die Digitalisierung der Arbeitsprozesse schreitet immer weiter voran. Im Produktionsbereich finden sich zunehmend über das Internet der Dinge vernetzte Wertschöpfungsketten in Form von Smart Factories und cyber-physischen Systemen. Im Dienstleistungsbereich werden wiederum verstärkt...

Die im Rahmen der Bekämpfung der COVID-19 Pandemie restriktiven Maßnahmen vieler Regierungen bewirkten eine Erhöhung der Telearbeitsquote. Auch in Österreich führte dies zu einem Anstieg, im April 2020 sogar stärker als im EU-Durchschnitt. Aktuell ist der Nutzen von Telearbeit gerade vor...

While workplace flexibility is perceived to be a key determinant of maternal labor supply, less is known about fathers' demand for flexibility or about intra-household spillover effects of flexibility initiatives. This paper examines these issues in the context of a critical period in family...

While workplace flexibility is perceived to be a key determinant of maternal labor supply, less is known about fathers' demand for flexibility or about intra-household spillover effects of flexibility initiatives. This paper examines these issues in the context of a critical period in family...

In the presented text, entrepreneurship is considered in the context of different ways of transforming the space of interpersonal relations and changes occurring in the organization of professional work associated, inter alia, with an individual and more flexible approach of the youngest...

We investigate the impact of computerization of white-collar jobs on wages and employment. Using online job postings from 2007 and 2010-2016 for office and administrative support (OAS) jobs, we show that when firms adopt new software at the job-title level they increase the skills required of...

Due to continuous and radical changes in the contemporary business environment, compa-nies now need to search for new modalities for a strategic positioning in the global market. New ways are sought to build and preserve competitive advantages, thus recognising that knowledge and learning are...

Die Autoren widmen sich den psychologischen Folgen einer permanenten Erreichbarkeit und zeigen Maßnahmen auf, um diesen sinnvoll zu begegnen. Hierzu werden zuerst die Ursachen für die permanente Erreichbarkeit, basierend auf der historischen Entwicklung, der Fürsorgepflicht der Arbeitgeber...

This working paper presents the results of the ETUI Internet and Platform Work Survey conducted in Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and Slovakia in 2018-2019. The objective is to map the extent of digital labour in central and eastern Europe (CEE). We analyse two types of online sources for...

"This book could well be the most comprehensive collection to date of integrated ideas on the elicitation, representation, integration and digitization of work processes and collaboration. The authors take a heavily human-centered approach while never losing sight of engineering aspects...