The smart glove or smart data glasses: Digitalization of work means that technology is moving closer to the bodies of employees. It can make movements, vital signs and even emotions visible. Technologies which many people use privately to monitor their sporting activities or health opens up a...

The Microfinance industry has been severely affected by Covid-19. We provide detailed insights into how loan officers, the key personnel linking the lender to its borrowers, are affected in their performance and adapt their work to the pandemic. We use administrative records of an Indian...

The smart glove or smart data glasses: Digitalization of work means that technology is moving closer to the bodies of employees. It can make movements, vital signs and even emotions visible. Technologies which many people use privately to monitor their sporting activities or health opens up a...

The Microfinance industry has been severely affected by Covid-19. We provide detailed insights into how loan officers, the key personnel linking the lender to its borrowers, are affected in their performance and adapt their work to the pandemic. We use administrative records of an Indian...

Im Zuge der Umstrukturierung von Arbeit wird vermehrt selbstorganisierte Teamarbeit anhand verschiedener Konzepte in Unternehmen umgesetzt. In der Study werden nachfolgende Regelungs- und Ansatzpunkte für gut gestaltete Teamarbeit ausführlich dargestellt. Grundlage sind 79 Betriebs- und...

New enabling technologies are shaping the transformation of production activities. This process of change is characterised by growing digitization, inter-connectivity and automation. The diffusion of new technologies is, however, very uneven, and firms display different adoption behaviours. By...

This chapter describes the nature, scope and effects of various non-mandated participatory work practices in Japan, the U.S. and Europe through the lens of organizational complementarity theory. Specifically, rather than being treated in isolation, each work practice is considered an element of...

This paper explores the impact of digital technologies on the nature and routine intensity of shopfloor work, the ways in which digital technologies exert their effects and the factors moderating the outcomes of digitalisation in respect of work. The effect of technology cannot be limited to a...

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...

We describe the nature, scope and effects of various non-mandated participatory work practices in Japan, the U.S. and Europe through the lens of complementarity in organizations. Specifically, rather than treating each work practice in isolation, we consider it an element of HIWS (High...

Information and communication technology (ICT) challenges traditional assumptions about the capacity to manage workers beyond organizational and physical boundaries. A typology connects a variety of non-traditional work organizations made possible by ICT, including offshoring, outsourcing,...

Objective: The objective of this article is to elaborate how the form of remote work can be hindered in an institutional cultural context in non-Western countries. Research Design & Methods: The article adopts data collection based on public report and news release in reference to the current...

This working paper presents the first findings of a survey on the impact of COVID-19 on workplace practices among employers in EU Member States. The survey was developed, organised and fielded at end-2020 by Eurofound and Cedefop. It explores the impact of the health crisis on companies in the...

The global pandemic induced by the spread of the Covid-19 acted as an exogenous shock which forced organisations to adopt telework as a daily and common form of work along a relevant fraction of the occupational structure. Indeed, most of the growing contributions on telework focused on the...

The article examines the relationship between lean production and Industrie 4.0 focusing on the question of autonomy in the work process. In contrast to the claim made by official Industrie 4.0 concepts that the autonomy of the employees would increase, we see in the current implementation...

Die COVID-19-Krise verändert die Arbeitswelt. Der Lockdown zur Eindämmung der Pandemie ging in den Betrieben mit der weitgehenden Umstellung auf die Arbeit im "Homeoffice" einher: die Nutzung der betrieblichen Räume wurde stark eingeschränkt, Besprechungen wurden größtenteils auf...

This project explores the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impact on business models, market structure, organization and work. By adopting a history-friendly perspective, the present contribution traces a stylized history of the AI technological domain in order to highlight...

GitLab is a software company that works "all remote" at the scale of more than 1000 employees located in more than 60 countries. GitLab has no physical office and its employees can work from anywhere they choose. Any step of the organizational life of a GitLab employee (e.g., hiring, onboarding...

Studies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations are identical around the world in the job tasks they require. To relax this assumption, we develop a regression-based methodology to predict the country-specific routine task...

The decline of employment in middle-wage, routine task intensive jobs has been well documented for the USA. Increased offshoring towards lower-income countries such as Mexico has been proposed as a potential driver of this decline. Our analysis provides a unique and new approach to address the...

Unternehmen setzen zunehmend interne Crowd Work als ein agiles und innovatives Prinzip zur Arbeitsorganisation ein. Orchestriert durch eine spezielle IT-Plattform agiert die Belegschaft hierbei als ein Pool interner Crowd-Worker/innen, auf die im Leistungserstellungsprozess flexibel zugegriffen...

Neue technologische Möglichkeiten und ein verschärfter globaler Wettbewerb erhöhen den Druck auf Unternehmen und zwingen sie dazu, ihren eingeschlagenen Weg zu überdenken. Diese Entwicklung wird von demographischen Veränderungen und einem fundamentalen Wertewandel in der Gesellschaft...

Die COVID-19-Krise verändert die Arbeitswelt. Der Lockdown zur Eindämmung der Pandemie ging in den Betrieben mit der weitgehenden Umstellung auf die Arbeit im "Homeoffice" einher: die Nutzung der betrieblichen Räume wurde stark eingeschränkt, Besprechungen wurden größtenteils auf...

This project explores the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impact on business models, market structure, organization and work. By adopting a history-friendly perspective, the present contribution traces a stylized history of the AI technological domain in order to highlight...

Studies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations are identical around the world in the job tasks they require. To relax this assumption, we develop a regression-based methodology to predict the countryspecific routine task...

Die Digitalisierung verändert die Arbeitsgesellschaft seit mehreren Jahrzehnten. Mit neuen Technologien wie maschinellen Lernmethoden der Künstlichen Intelligenz kann die Digitalisierung in weitere Bereiche der Arbeitswelt vordringen - und tut dies bereits. Das grundlegende disruptive...

One obvious problem that is responsible for poor performance in organizations both public and private is poor time management. It is common to observe that in most establishments, workers who are supposed to be on duty post at about 8.00 am have not reached their respective offices even at about...