Digital Futures at Work Research Centre

工作中的数字未来研究中心（digit .）将成为那些想要了解新数字技术如何深刻重塑工作世界的人的重要资源。数字化是当代辩论的一个热门话题。对于福音派来说，技术为那些寻找工作的人提供了新的机会，并为那些在职的人提供了更多的灵活性和自主权。相比之下，更悲观的看法认为，未来的工作要么被机器人摧毁，要么通过越来越不稳定的合同和电脑化监控而退化。以优步（Uber）为例：该公司声称，它正在为个体创业者创造机会；虽然工人团体越来越多地通过法律手段挑战这种说法，以改善他们在工作中的权利。尽管对全球范围内日益分散、数字化和灵活的工作转型的积极和悲观的看法比比皆是，但对当代发展的理论理解仍然不发达，也缺乏系统的实证分析。例如，我们知道，雇主和政府正在努力应对和理解数字变革的速度和后果，而个人在如何在动荡的劳动力市场中成为并保持“联系”方面面临新的不确定性。然而，我们并没有真正理解在一个日益“互联”的经济中成为“互联工作者”意味着什么。从不同的学术研究领域汲取资源，挖掘。IT将提供经验创新和国际广泛的知识体系，为数字化对未来工作的影响提供权威见解。挖。信息技术中心将由苏塞克斯大学和利兹大学共同领导，并由阿伯丁大学、剑桥大学、曼彻斯特大学和莫纳什大学的顶尖专家提供支持。其核心研究计划将涵盖四个广泛的研究主题。主题一将为中心的活动确定概念和数量基础。主题二涉及对雇主工作中的数字化实践进行大规模调查。主题三涉及对雇主和雇员在四个领域（创意产业、商业服务、消费者服务、公共服务）的数字化工作体验进行定性研究。主题4考察了失去联系的人如何通过公共就业服务、新型自营职业的增长、平台工作以及工人对在国际背景下建立新形式的声音和代表性的反应，试图重新联系起来。具体项目包括：1；数字化对工作和就业的影响-从历史、区域和国际角度概念化数字未来-数字就业的比较监管-绘制数字技术和工作的区域和国际趋势2。雇主数字化工作实践调查3。雇主和雇员对跨行业数字化工作的体验——不断变化的管理流程和实践——员工对数字化转型的体验4。重新连接断开的：新的声音和代表渠道-失业工人，求职和公共就业服务-自营职业，利益代表和声音。资讯科技署会设立数码未来工作的数据观察站，透过互动网站推广我们的研究结果、报告一系列方法研讨会和新的实验方法，并举办广泛的外展活动。它将作为数字工作研究前沿的单一平台资源库，并将成为政策范围内决策者的焦点，与产业战略、就业和福利政策联系起来。它还将管理一个创新基金，旨在资助来自整个学术界的新颖研究想法，因为它们出现在该中心的生命周期中。

The Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (Dig.IT) will establish itself as an essential resource for those wanting to understand how new digital technologies are profoundly reshaping the world of work. Digitalisation is a topical feature of contemporary debate. For evangelists, technology offers new opportunities for those seeking work and increased flexibility and autonomy for those in work. More pessimistic visions, in contrast, see a future where jobs are either destroyed by robots or degraded through increasingly precarious contracts and computerised monitoring. Take Uber as an example: the company claims it is creating opportunities for self-employed entrepreneurs; while workers' groups increasingly challenge such claims through legal means to improve their rights at work.While such positive and pessimistic scenarios abound of an increasingly fragmented, digitalised and flexible transformation of work across the globe, theoretical understanding of contemporary developments remains underdeveloped and systematic empirical analyses are lacking. We know, for example, that employers and governments are struggling to cope with and understand the pace and consequences of digital change, while individuals face new uncertainties over how to become and stay 'connected' in turbulent labour markets. Yet, we have no real understanding of what it means to be a 'connected worker' in an increasing 'connected' economy. Drawing resources from different academic fields of study, Dig.IT will provide an empirically innovative and international broad body of knowledge that will offer authoritative insights into the impact of digitalisation on the future of work.The Dig.IT centre will be jointly led by the Universities of Sussex and Leeds, supported by leading experts from Aberdeen, Cambridge, Manchester and Monash Universities. Its core research programme will cover four broad-ranging research themes. Theme one will set the conceptual and quantitative base for the centre's activities. Theme two involves a large-scale survey of Employers' Digital Practices at Work. Theme three involves qualitative research on employers' and employees' experiences of digitalisation at work across 4 sectors (Creative industries, Business Services, Consumer Services, Public Services). Theme 4 examines how the disconnected attempt to reconnect, through Public Employment Services, the growth of new types of self-employment, platform work and workers' responses to building new forms of voice and representation in an international context. Specific projects include:1. The Impact of Digitalisation on Work and Employment-Conceptualising digital futures, historically, regionally and internationally-Comparative regulation of digital employment- Mapping regional and international trends of digital technology and work2. Employers' Digital Practices at Work Survey3. Employers' and employees' experiences of digital work across sectors-Changing management processes and practices-Workers' experiences of digital transformation4. Reconnecting the disconnected: new channels of voice and representation- displaced workers, job search and the public employment service- self-employment, interest representation and voiceDig.IT will establish a Data Observatory on digital futures at work to promote our findings through an interactive website, report on a series of methodological seminars and new experimental methods and deliver extensive outreach activities. It will act as a one-platform library of resources at the forefront of research on digital work and will establish itself as a focal point for decision-makers across the policy spectrum, connecting with industrial strategy, employment and welfare policy. It will also manage an Innovation Fund designed to fund novel research ideas, from across the academic community as they emerge over the life course of the centre.