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Resilience of the workforce in the digital age

Published on May 30, 2022   9 min

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Hello everybody. Thanks so much for joining this talk on the "Resilience of the Workforce in the Digital Age" and the case of online labour markets. My name is Fabian Stephany and I'm a social data scientist at the University of Oxford. At our department, the Oxford Internet Institute, we study how our individual and collective behavior online shapes our political, social and economic world.
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This talk is about resilience towards the big changes in the way that work is organized and that our workplaces are changing. Two big trends behind this change of how work is organized on digitalisation and remote work. Digitalisation is a process by which tasks and certain units of work are digitalized. They are automated, they are transferred to the digital space and can increasingly be managed with digital technologies via the Internet. The second trend is remote work. This is particularly, since the beginning of early 2020, a trend that has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. But it has been with us before, in larger companies employees were allowed to work from home more frequently, in particular when they had to juggle between tasks within the family, taking care of kids or taking care of other family members. These two trends they go hand in hand and they change the way that we work and the way that work is organized fundamentally. In particular since early 2020,

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