Flexibility in Digitalized Working Worlds: Use and implications of telecommuting and digital work communication across European countries

数字化工作世界的灵活性：欧洲国家远程办公和数字工作通信的使用和影响

• 批准号: 442313438
• 负责人: Dr. Anja-Kristin Abendroth
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Arbeitsbereich 5: Sozialstruktur und soziale Ungleichheit
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/442313438?language=en
• 关键词: Flexibility; Digitalized; Working; Worlds; Use

IIn the current debate about the digitalization of work, the promise of locational flexibility is one of the most prominent features. Digital technologies such as information and communication technologies have increasingly made it possible for workers to communicate with supervisors and colleagues and to access work-related data and information from anywhere, regardless of their location and official working hours. According to existing research, this digitally induced flexibility may be associated with both risks and opportunities. On the one hand, such studies suggest that employers may take advantage of such flexibility by expecting employees to be more available for work; on the other hand, digitally induced flexibility may be a way for employees to better integrate their work and personal lives.The main objective of this research project is to identify the factors which determine 1) whether digital-induced opportunities for flexible working serve the flexibility interests of employers and/or flexibility interests of employees and 2) whether digital-induced opportunities of flexible working weaken or strengthen gender and class specific patterns of labor market involvement and perceived conflicts between work and personal life. For this purpose this project studies a) the importance of the interplay of digital infrastructures and societal institutions (e.g. family and labor market policies) for the use and implications of digital work communication and telework, b) how this varies in dependence of gender and occupation, and c) how employee perceived organizational work culture which follows or deviates from the norm of an ideal worker who has few family obligations and prioritizes work mediates or counteracts national influences.Based on the initiated rotating module of the of the European Social Survey 2020/21 with more than 25 countries hierarchical analyses will be applied considering individual as well as country specific information.

在当前关于工作数字化的辩论中，位置灵活性的承诺是最突出的特征之一。信息和通信技术等数字技术使工人越来越有可能与主管和同事进行沟通，并从任何地方访问与工作有关的数据和信息，而无论其位置和正式工作时间如何。根据现有的研究，这种数字化带来的灵活性可能与风险和机遇有关。一方面，这类研究表明，雇主可能会利用这种灵活性，期望雇员更有时间工作;另一方面，在一个实施例中，数字化带来的灵活性可能是员工更好地整合工作和个人生活的一种方式。本研究项目的主要目标是确定以下因素：1）数字化-诱导的灵活工作机会符合雇主的灵活性利益和/或雇员的灵活性利益，以及2）数字-灵活工作的诱导机会削弱或加强了劳动力市场参与的性别和阶级特定模式，工作和个人生活。为此，该项目研究a）数字基础设施和社会机构相互作用的重要性（例如家庭和劳动力市场政策）的使用和数字工作通信和远程工作的影响，B）这如何根据性别和职业而变化，以及c）员工如何感知遵循或偏离理想员工规范的组织工作文化？根据《2020/21年欧洲社会调查》启动的轮换模块，超过25个国家将进行分层分析，考虑个人和国家的具体信息。